Awesome

A Stupid Terminal

About

This is a simple wrapper around the VTE terminal emulator widget for GTK+. Its main feature is to easily start new terminal windows from the command line. Eg.

$ st -- ssh -p 2222 myserver.com &

This will start a new terminal window running ssh, and will automatically close when you exit the session.

A nifty trick is to add the following snippet to your .bashrc so you don't have to add -- and & after every command.

vt() { /usr/bin/st -- "$@" & }

No support for tabs or other bells and whistles are implemnted. Use your window manager for that.

Installing

Make sure you have VTE with API version 2.91 installed along with headers, pkg-config, make and a C compiler.

$ git clone 'https://github.com/esmil/stupidterm.git'
$ cd stupidterm
$ make release
$ sudo make prefix=/usr install

The git repo also includes a PKGBUILD for Archlinux and a spec-file for RPM based distros to build packages directly from git.

There might also be a package in your distribution already:

Configuring

On startup stupidterm will look for stupidterm.ini in your user configuration dir. Usually $HOME/.config/stupidterm.ini.

Copy the included example there and edit it to your hearts content.

License

stupidterm is based on the vte example terminal and still licensed under LGPL.