A collection of articles, ideas, and rambling from a guy who wrote some software that one time.

Monday, October 17, 2005

Python to the rescue (Or, How Hard could it Possibly Be)

So these terminal programs suck, right? They get basic configuration options wrong, they crash a lot. I need a higher availability terminal.

Well, the underlying widget seems to work OK so long as you don't drive it too hard, so, I wrote my own "terminal" by just trivially invoking libvte from Python.

So here it is, HATE, the High Availability Terminal Emulator.

Blah blah, no warranty - if you use this my agents will hunt you down and kill you.

Enjoy.

1 comment:

smitty1e said...

I just boot to a prompt, and only light off X when necessary. Ah, the simplicity of a CLI...