I'm glad that you guys like it and find it useful. :)

The only requirment is libvte.

dolfje said:
features?<br />- maybe support for tabs? So you can open several terminals<br />- a button for forcing the terminal on top of everything. (handy if you have to look to an manual on the web)

I'll see about those. I'm not sure how to implement tabs (maybe the notebook widget) so I'll have to look over the source for another app.

ryancr said:
and maybe a middle click to launch an external terminal window, so it could be used as a applet/launcher.

That doesn't seem too hard to add... I'll work on it.

davim said:
maybe you could look in the code of stjerm to get more features into this applet :)

I never heard of stjerm, but I'll look into it. I already have the code for gnome-termnal and gtk-terminal on my computer.

dolfje said:
small bug:<br />If you open a terminal and you go to another window, you have to click twice on the terminal icon before the terminal comes to front.

I just have to add a hide event for when the terminal loses focus. It'll be fixed in the next version.

dirken said:
I totaly like it but this, is it possible to make it as transparant as the normal terminal?

Absolutely. The only dificulty will be finding an intuitive way to alter the transparancy level. Perhaps I'll add on a settings window if I can figure out how.

I'm surprised none of you have noticed, but it also doesn't support copy and paste yet. I'll see if I can roll out another version tonight.

Have you ever noticed how many smilies this forum has?

gilir said:
Looks great ! :) I'll take a look at it when I came back at home.
A Blueprint on Launchpad is already available : https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/awn-extras/+spec/embedded-terminal

I just got the email. :)

searayman said:
same here...

kantor said:
I think it would be a great applet if i can try it...

everyone does realize this a C applet?

kantor said:
Ok. Thanks... can you link or at least write down where i can find the normal configuration and build process for the awn applet?

Assuming an applet is not part of awn-extras etc...

unpack the file. Command line in this case would be.

tar xzvf awn-terminal-0.2.targ.gz

cd to the directory created... in this case

cd awn-terminal

then

sh autogen.sh

assuming that completes without errors then

make

assuming that completes without errors then

sudo make install

 
kantor said:
autogen.sh: 2: autoreconf: not found<br /> 
 

which probably means that you have to install autoreconf first, or whatever package that is a part of.

http://wiki.awn-project.org/index.php?title=InstallingFromSource for all you need for compiling from source

 
kantor@PC1:~/awn-terminal$ ./autogen.sh
autoreconf2.50: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf2.50: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf2.50: running: aclocal --force 
aclocal:configure.ac:55: warning: macro `AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2' not found in library
aclocal:configure.ac:62: warning: macro `AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2' not found in library
autoreconf2.50: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf2.50: configure.ac: not using Libtool
autoreconf2.50: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
configure.ac:11: error: possibly undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
      If this token and others are legitimate, please use m4_pattern_allow.
      See the Autoconf documentation.
configure.ac:55: error: possibly undefined macro: AM_GCONF_SOURCE_2
autoreconf2.50: /usr/bin/autoconf failed with exit status: 1
 

ok libtool are installed what do i have to do now?
ok i'm installing all the dependencies suggested at the link you give me... let's see what happen

dzzsky said:
Very nice applet. Is there any chance you can make this applet use your themes icon? Or even just an option to change the icon.

It does. It uses the icon "terminal" from your current theme.

dzzsky said:
The ability to change font/background colour would also be welcomed :)

I probably won't be able to get that done any time in the next few days, but I'll put it on my list of things to do.

aantn said:
It does. It uses the icon "terminal" from your current theme.

Ah, my mistake. I thought it would be using the gnome-terminal icon.

I've added copy and paste.

I've edited my original post to link to the new version (0.3).

I intend to keep on rolling out new versions each with one or two small features added.

Photon said:
Anyone tried to run "exit" in this terminal? *just a joke*

:-)

aantn said:
I've added copy and paste.

thank you!!! this rocks now!

aantn said:
Does anyone have any ideas for showing tabs in a non ugly way?

Well, stjerm :-)

The challenge is that stjerm is rather undocumented...

On this page there are several changes and tabs introduced
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=34718&p=3

Latest version
http://home.gna.org/stjerm/

gilir said:
<br />Setting up the applet and the terminal...Awn Terminal Applet: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/awn/applets/awnterm/awnterm.so: undefined symbol: vte_terminal_new

Do you have libvte installed?

aantn said:
Do you have libvte installed?

Yes. but it's ok now, it was just a little mistake for me :) Working good now :)

dirken said:
that's only a copy of the current selection!

I am using it for paste commands.

Often you takes a command with right click/copy from a webpage, then
a middle click for paste to the terminal