Dumbest and weirdest terminals (or per terminal executable programs)
Posted by Einfach0nur0Baum@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 15 comments
What are the dumbest terminals or the most annoying programs for terminals you know? For example, there is “No More Secrets” and I am looking for similar stupid things that I can incorporate into my even more stupid project.
ben-c@reddit
I briefly had a physical serial terminal in the late 1990s that had been used with CP/M and the owner was throwing it out. But it was unusable with Linux because each of its 4 terminal emulations had a fatal problem. For example, in one mode the up arrow key produced ^Z.
(I can't remember what manufacturer it was, but I don't think was a big company like Wyse, IBM, HP or Digital. It was a text terminal with separate keyboard and monitor.)
db48x@reddit
with the right
termcaporterminfofile it would have worked just fine.ben-c@reddit
True, but
CTRL-Zconflicts with the terminal stop signal so I would have to change or disable it. That's possible usingsttybut I decided it would be too annoying because if I typedCTRL-Zto suspend a program it would interpret it as the up arrow.klu9@reddit
bitspace@reddit
Them's fighting words
klu9@reddit
I opened a terminal in hope of fortune providing me with a snappy comeback... and got that :D
(Did I forget to put
cowfilesin my list? Cuz cowfiles is totally dumb enough for me to have installed together with fortune :) )MouseJiggler@reddit
sl. sl is amazing.
EndMaster0@reddit
The best part about sl is the "bugs" section that says it sometimes displays the contents of the current directory
ForceBlade@reddit
🚂
olikn@reddit
https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
CUViper@reddit
https://github.com/p-e-w/ternimal
throwaway234f32423df@reddit
alias echo="cowsay"
cat(){ /usr/bin/cat $@ | cowsay; }
SeriousPlankton2000@reddit
The really dumbest terminal is a printer in character mode plus a keyboard.
Mister_Magister@reddit
lolcat + ack --bar + refresh
(fish code)
`ack --bar | lolcat --force ; sleep 0.05 ; printf "\e[0;0H"`
result is colored ackbar thats changing color every 0.05s
MatchingTurret@reddit
crashme