Why Ptyxis is a Game-Changer for Embedded Terminal Emulation

Why Ptyxis is a Game-Changer for Embedded Terminal Emulation

When you’re building applications that need terminal-like functionality, embedding a full terminal emulator can feel like overkill. Enter Ptyxis—a lightweight, versatile tool for integrating terminal emulation directly within your application. Here’s a breakdown of why Ptyxis might be the perfect fit for developers looking to add a terminal without the bloat.

What is Ptyxis?

Ptyxis is designed for embedding terminal emulation into applications, especially those built on GNOME or GTK. Rather than a one-size-fits-all terminal emulator, Ptyxis focuses on the essentials, delivering streamlined, customizable terminal functionality.

lightweight pdf viewer – zathura.

Zathura is a lightweight viewer for pdf which works on plugins. Here is shor description :

Zathura is a highly configurable and functional PDF viewer based on the Poppler
rendering library and the GTK+ toolkit. The idea behind zathura is an
application that provides a minimalist and space saving interface as well as
an easy usage that mainly focuses on keyboard interaction.

But the viewer will not work unless you install the plugins to display the correct plugin. So, if you want to use it for any real purposes then you will have to install the appropriate plugin as well, so here is what you need to do:

Xnest – XDMCP protocol and virtual DM

XDMCP is protocol that allows remote connections and provides you with a working Display Manager like KDE, GNome, et al. Its a remote connection protocol that is mostly enabled on Solaris and disabled on most Linux boxes. If you need to have a remote session where you need the X Display to open some GUI applications then you can have a connection with the remote server with XDMCP.

gnome-tweak-tool gets a fantastic new Font Selector window

Here is the quick look at how the Font Selector looks like now. And its not just for the gnome-tweak-tool, its for all the places for font selection. I really loved it. So intuitive to use and amazingly good to look. This is what a good design and thinking can do. Kudos to Gnome team for coming up with this.

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gdialog on F11 – Leonidas

If you are using some old application or want to install some application that was developed quite some time back with GTK GUI, then you may find the application using gdialog. gdialog is no more available and is deprecated in Fedora and same functionality is provided by zenity. But the options to call zenity are slightly different so what do you do. I did a google search and found the following script. The credit of script is not mine and credit goes to ”Mike Newman mikegtn@gnome.org”

bash – change theme for gtk in gnome and take screenshot from script.

I wrote a blog on bash script to change the icon/cursor theme using a bash script. Lets extend the same concept a little more and use the script to change the gtk theme for gnome and at the same time take a screenshot also.

#!/bin/bash
path=”/tmp/screenshot”
[[ ”$1” == ”” ]] && time=5 || time=$1
[[ ”$2” == ”” ]] && (
cd ~/.themes
cont=”y”
echo ”Select one of the icon themes”
echo ”When you like some theme just press Ctrl+c”
for i in *
do
[[ -d $i/cursors ]] || (
echo ”Now trying …. : $i”
gconftool-2 –type string -s  /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme ”$i”
sleep 1
j=$(echo ”$path/$i”).jpg
import -window root -quality 95 ”$j”
sleep $time
)
done
) || gconftool-2 –type string -s  /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme ”$2”

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New GTK and metacity themes from Ian

Here are two themes from Ian.. Link: http://ardchoille42.blogspot.com/2009/09/new-gtk2-and-metacity-themes.html

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/GTK-DarkTurrican.tar.gz">GTK-DarkTurrican.tar

<a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/GTK-LightTurrican.tar.gz">GTK-LightTurrican.tar