cool-old-term – terminal emulator

Last Updated on July 10, 2021

cool-old-term is an open source terminal emulator that is in a very early stage of development. It tries to mimic the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. The developer has not forgotten to include some eye-candy. The terminal emulator is both customizable, reasonably frugal on system resources, and looks very authentic.

I have included cool-old-term in this article not because it challenges any of the best terminal emulators. It is currently not particularly stable on my Ubuntu system. However, it makes me reminisce of my (mostly) misspent youth crouched over a blinking green monitor learning how computers worked. Happy days!

The application is written using QtQuick 5.2 and uses as its engine the Konsole QML port made by Canonical. The plugin is self-contained and there are no dependencies with KDE or GNOME.

Features include:

• Profiles: Default Amber, Default Green, Default Pixelated, Apple ][, Vintage, IBM DOS, IBM 3278, Transparent Green.
• Configurable brightness, contrast, and opacity.
• Disable reflections option.
• Texture quality.
• Effects: Bloom, Motion Blur, Noise, Jitter, Glow, Screen Distortion, Ambient Light, Brightness flickering, Horizontal flickering.
• Full screen.
• Zoom in/out.

Website: swordfishslabs.wordpress.com
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Developer: Filippo Scognamiglio
License: GNU GPL v3

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