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GLterm - 1.1

Terminal replacement supporting more features

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Version 1.1:	(3.3)
Selected Version:	1.1
Release Date:	2002-02-18
License:	Commercial
Downloads (version 1.1):	0
Downloads (all versions):	21,330
Price:	$10.00

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Product Description:

GLterm is a replacement for the Terminal application which ships with MacOS X. It's made to be faster, and to support more common terminal features. It supports full ANSI colors, all vt102 protocol, and a selection of useful xterm sequences. GLterm uses OpenGL and your 3D accelerator hardware to render text, making it incredibly fast.

What's new in this version:

Added support for "Reopening" GLterm. Clicking it's icon in the dock can automaticaly open a terminal if none are already open.
You can select not to open a new terminal when GLterm is launched.
Added support for rectangular selections: Option-click & drag.
Rewrote the keyboard handling. All the keyboard equivalents are described into Key.txt and Keymap.txt (in GLterm.app package). You can change and add your own keyboard macros there if needed.
Changed the default ALT key equivalent to be Option-Command instead of just Option. This solves MOST problems for non-US keyboard layouts.
The keys numlock, =, / and * on the keypad now send the PF1-PF4 sequences.
To toggle numlock, use command-numlock.
Added FAT Bold text.
Fixed a potential crash when Copying text (thanks to Sam Maloney!)
Fixed a problem that could leave 'zombie' shells after GLterm had quitted.
Keyboard input now autoscrolls back to bottom of the buffer.
Cursor no longer diseapear when quitting vi in debian or redhat.
Tweaked the preference dialog self-documentation.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or higher
OpenGL compatible graphic hardware

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Version 1.1:
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I give it… - Version: 1.1, 4/28/2002 01:32PM PST

LaskoVortex

4 stars because its a screamer with text rendering (geforce2mx) and starts up fast. Of course I've only been using it for 90 seconds. It looks like it will replace terminal for quickie sessions but not x-windows for real work. BusError, if you read this, the perfect terminal application will have focus follows mouse and support for three button copy-paste, just like x-windows. I still can't stand click-select-copy-click-click-paste. This is a mac drag. Real unix users need select-paste (notice 2 steps versus 5?). That's hardcore, not the "looser-friendly" way to do it that mac has forced us to do.

smurfix: What do… - Version: 1.1, 4/24/2002 12:30AM PST

lws

you need unicode in a terminal for? ... out of curiosity

Nice speed, and… - Version: 1.1, 2/18/2002 11:14PM PST

smurfix

it can do online resize now. BUT: No Latin-1, certainly no Unicode, no standard fonts, can't change character size for an existing window, and IMHO small fonts are much more readable when antialiased. Therefore: Sorry but I'm sticking with Terminal.