Final Term is in heavy development and neither stable nor feature complete! You can follow Final Term's high level progress at blog.finalterm.org. To discuss Final Term and get support, join #finalterm on Freenode.

A note for translators

Like all other contributions, translations of Final Term into any language are welcome and greatly appreciated. However, because of its superior capabilities for that task, we have decided to manage translation contributions through Launchpad's Rosetta at https://translations.launchpad.net/finalterm/trunk/+pots/finalterm rather than on GitHub, so please submit your work there instead of filing a pull request here.

Whenever an actual release of Final Term is packaged (which hasn't happened yet as the project is still in an unstable state), the translations on Launchpad will be merged and all translators will be credited in Final Term's about dialog.

About Final Term

Final Term is a new breed of terminal emulator.

It goes beyond mere emulation and understands what is happening inside the shell it is hosting. This allows it to offer features no other terminal can, including:

Semantic text menus
Smart command completion
GUI terminal controls

For more information, visit http://finalterm.org.

Installation

Final Term is written in Vala and built on top of GTK+ 3, Clutter and Mx. It requires the development files for the following software packages:

Gee
GTK+ 3
Clutter >= 1.12
Clutter-Gtk
Mx
keybinder-3.0
libnotify Optional, for desktop notifications support
libunity Optional, for Unity launcher integration (progress bars)

Additionally, it requires intltool for localization string extraction.

To install Final Term, execute these shell commands:

git clone https://github.com/p-e-w/finalterm.git
cd finalterm/
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

If you want to install to a custom directory your XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable has to point to the prefix with the file glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled in it.

Instructions for Ubuntu

Thanks to the work of Bob Mottram (packaging) and GitHub user versable (PPA setup), Ubuntu is currently the easiest platform to install Final Term on:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:finalterm/daily
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install finalterm

The PPA is synchronized with the GitHub repository and should always deliver the latest version with a few hours delay at most.

Instructions for Fedora

Note: Jóhann B. Guðmundsson has provided an SRPM for Final Term here.

The following concrete steps have been tested and work to get Final Term installed and running on a vanilla Fedora 18 system:

Install prerequisites

sudo yum install git cmake vala intltool libgee-devel gnome-common gtk-doc gtk3-devel keybinder3-devel libmx-devel clutter-gtk-devel libnotify-devel

Install Final Term

git clone https://github.com/p-e-w/finalterm.git
cd finalterm/
mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ..
make
sudo make install

Instructions for Arch Linux

There is an AUR for Final Term maintained by Arch Linux user kens: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/finalterm-git/.

Instructions for Gentoo

A live ebuild for Final Term is in Gentoo's Sunrise overlay courtesy of Ferenc Erki. You can find usage instructions here.

Acknowledgments

Final Term owes much of its existence to the awesomeness of Vala and its documentation, Clutter and Mx, as well as to those projects authors' generous decision to release their amazing work as open source software.

Much of the knowledge about terminal emulation required to build Final Term was gained from the xterm specification and the VT100 User Guide, as well as from the study of existing terminal emulators such as st and Terminator.

Final Term's color schemes are generated using the wonderful Base16 Builder by Chris Kempson.

Final Term's application icon is a modified version of the terminal icon from the Faenza icon theme by Matthieu James.

License

Final Term is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Final Term is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Final Term. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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