MTerm

MTerm is a terminal I decided to work on based around a VTE terminal tutorial. The original idea of this terminal was to have it look like a DEC terminal by using the DEC Terminal Font. However this got annoying for me to use after a bit. So I decided to change it. Originally the change was to Perfect DOS VGA which looked alright. Then I settled on Pixifont 2 by https://kokoscript.com.

How do I install mterm?

On Debian/Ubuntu

1. Go into your terminal and if you don't already have it installed, install libvte-2.91-dev and cmake
2. Install the font. You can do this by installing it through a font manager or doing sudo cp pixifont2.ttf /usr/share/font
3. Create a build directory by doing mkdir build
4. then do the following. cd build && cmake .. && make
5. if you want to fully install it follow step 4 up with sudo make install

On Fedora

1. Go into your terminal and if it's not already installed install vte291-devel and cmake
2. Install the font. Same process as Ubuntu/Debian from here to step 5

On OpenIndiana

1. Go to your terminal and do sudo pkg install metapackages/build-essential
2. If not installed install VTE by doing sudo pkg install library/desktop/vte
3. create the build directory and go to it mkdir build && cd build
4. cmake it then make it (in this example im using 4 threads) cmake .. && gmake -j4
5. Install it sudo gmake install
6. done!

On FreeBSD

1. Go to your terminal and do sudo pkg install vte3 cmake gcc git devel/pkgconf
2. Create the build directory and go to it mkdir build && cd build
3. cmake it and then make it cmake .. && make -j4
4. install sudo make install
5. done!!

Thanks to

Thanks to @foxgirl_IRL on twitter (https://kokoscript.com) for letting me use and package Pixifont 2 Monospace with the terminal and allowing me to rename the internal font name so it would work properly after mterm is compiled.

Vincent Bernat for writing the original VTE tutorial that led to this.