Cool retro term windows

Install Xserver on Windows side:

I will use chocolatey to install it but you may also download X server from the sourceforge page

Run this command in an administrator powershell prompt to install

In WSL Ubuntu, install the cool-retro-term package using apt:

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sudo apt install cool-retro-term

Add this to your .bashrc file so WSL knows the address of the Xserver

I found this method to set DISPLAY to be the most robust as it works even when your .wslconf doesn’t have generateResolvConf=true and when you are using a custom DNS server. The previous method I was using to set DISPLAY would use the wrong address with my setup.

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export DISPLAY=$(ip route list default | awk '{print $3}'):0

Now when you run cool-retro-term you should get a window!

Making a shortcut to start cool-retro-term is annoying since if you try to run it directly from a commandline in Windows, you will likely get this error (I also get this error when specifying the DISPLAY parameter in the commandline):

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C:\Users\Peter>bash -c cool-retro-term
qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.

Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, xcb.

This will work, I think because it opens a login shell.

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bash -c "bash --rcfile <(echo '. ~/.bashrc; cool-retro-term; exit')"

Now wrap it in a vbs script to hide the cmd.exe window from appearing:

Set objShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
objShell.Run "%comspec% /c start /B """" bash -c ""bash --rcfile <(echo '. ~/.bashrc; cool-retro-term -p DEFAULT_PROFILE; exit')""", 0 'Hide

And call this from a shortcut’s target field:

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C:\Windows\System32\wscript.exe "C:\YOUR_PATH_HERE\cool-retro-term.vbs"

Congratulations, when you click the shortcut you should get a cool-retro-term window without any other windows being spawned!

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_{Источник: Microsoft}

Во вторник компания Microsoft выпустила обновление для приложения командной строки Windows Terminal с новыми полезными функциями, включая поиск в окне консоли, открытие нескольких вкладок и опцию ретро-режима в стиле CRT.

«Windows Terminal — это современное, многофункциональное, производительное приложение для пользователей командной строки. Он включает в себя многие функции, наиболее часто запрашиваемые сообществом Windows, включая поддержку вкладок, форматированного текста, создание тем и стилей и многое другое. Основные новые функции обновления включают в себя возможность открыть несколько вкладок, поддержку символов Unicode и UTF-8, движок рендеринга текста с GPU-ускорением», — сообщает портал Bleeping Computer.

Функция поиска позволяет искать текст в открытом окне консоли, используя комбинацию клавиш Ctrl + Shift + F. Что касается нескольких вкладок, то по умолчанию терминал Windows будет отображать вкладки одинаковой ширины, однако размер вкладок можно настроить. Также Microsoft даст возможность выбрать определённый профиль, который будет открываться после использования сочетания клавиш, которое назначит сам пользователь.

Экспериментальную функцию стиля CRT Microsoft добавила для тех, кто испытывает ностальгию по эпохе ламповых мониторов. Microsoft предельно точно воссоздала ретро-интерфейс, включая классические мерцающие линии, которые пользователи могли видеть на мониторах до того, как мир переключился на плоские мониторы и ЖК-технологии.

Предыдущее обновление Windows Terminal включало в себя поддержку режима разделения экрана Split View. С этим обновлением пользователи получили возможность одновременно открывать несколько командных строк бок о бок на одной вкладке. Финальный релиз Windows Terminal ожидается в апреле этого года.

Как указывают в Microsoft, Windows Terminal — это приложение с открытым исходным кодом, и компания приветствует участие сообщества в его развитии. Описание проекта размещено на GitHub.

2022 Update

Check this article for updated and much simpler instructions using WSL2+WSLg. 🥳
Or you can keep reading below if you’re stuck with WSL1 for some reason.

I often work with Linux environments through SSH on my Windows machine. As most people who use the command line on a semi-regular basis, I like looking at available alternatives/customizations to the stock terminal emulator.

On Windows, you’ve got a lot of solid alternatives such as cmder or the myriad of cool-looking emulators using web technologies under the hood. (I especially like Fluent Terminal, which really gets my Win10 design language boner going!)

But this stuff man, it doesn’t have the bling. The hipster cred.

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cool-retro-term is a terminal emulator I often wished I had on Windows, for no other reason than to look cool. Nobody really ever bothered to port it to run on Windows however(and I wouldn’t do it either tbh), so I swallowed my dreams of being an epic hacker and just opened up PuTTY for the umpteenth time.

Until now.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux nowadays just allows one to run the original emulator as-is with a simple X server port for Windows. I’ll be giving a short how-to list here, tested on Windows 10 1809.

Activate WSL and download the required Linux dependencies

I’ll let Microsoft speak for me on the first point. I used Ubuntu as a base distro, but you can probably manage with another one.
Once in your WSL terminal, install the few dependencies you’ll need:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libgl1 xfce4-terminal

xfce4-terminal is a hefty download, but without it I was unable to get keyboard input to work in CRT. The errors were linked to XKB, so you might be able to manage by only installing xkb-data or similar packages.

Download the cool-retro-term AppImage and extract it

The AppImage conveniently bundles up Qt and everything needed. WSL doesn’t have fuse support however, so you’ll have to extract it instead of running it as-is.

wget https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/releases/download/1.1.1/Cool-Retro-Term-1.1.1-x86_64.AppImage
chmod a+x Cool-Retro-Term-1.1.1-x86_64.AppImage
./Cool-Retro-Term-1.1.1-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-extract

Close your Linux CLI for now.

Boot ‘er up with Xming

👉 Download and install Xming on the Windows side.

vcXsrv is another port of the X server to Windows that’s often recommended in X-on-WSL blogposts, but it didn’t work with CRT during my experiments. You can also try FreeXer, or Cygwin’s X server.

Once installed, just start it up and go back to Linux:

export DISPLAY=:0
cd squashfs-root
./AppRun

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From here on, you can right-click on the terminal to load a different graphical profile or make a custom one yourself.
Basically everything works as-is — even urxvt mouse tracking!

Automating it all with some scripting

I jerry-rigged a pair of .bat/.sh scripts to start both Xming on the Windows side and CRT on the WSL side.

cool-retro-term.bat

start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Xming\Xming.exe" :0 -clipboard -multiwindow
start /min wsl -d ubuntu ./crt.sh

crt.sh

cd ~/squashfs-root && export DISPLAY=:0.0 && ./AppRun 

Caveats

• WSL doesn’t have GPU acceleration yet. This is entirely running in software and as you can see in the htop above, easily eats more CPU than those newfangled javascript terminals. 😐
• Pasting text into cool-retro-term works, but copying text from it doesn’t.
• You can encounter a segfault or two if you mess with the graphical settings too much in one session. Once a profile is saved however, I’ve encountered no crashes in the few hours I spent playing with this.

All things considered, this is basically a party trick at the moment and nothing else.
It’s pretty cool with ncmpcpp though!