If you like to bring a retro look to your modern desktop, this would be the first app you wanna consider! I like to make my Ubuntu look like a Unix machine. So I started trying and found out this wonderful lightweight and eye-candy terminal app for my Linux box. It has many profiles like IBM Dos, Apple etc. Using this terminal makes us feel like we are in some Sci-Phy movie kind of thing. So today we will see how to install this app in our Ubuntu machines. I do not know if this supports older versions of Ubuntu, but it works charmingly in my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. So, 14.04 users must follow below steps:
Steps:
1. Install dependencies:
sudo apt-get install build-essential qmlscene qt5-qmake qt5-default qtdeclarative5-dev qtdeclarative5-controls-plugin qtdeclarative5-qtquick2-plugin libqt5qml-graphicaleffects qtdeclarative5-dialogs-plugin qtdeclarative5-localstorage-plugin qtdeclarative5-window-plugin
2. Download from GitHub:
git clone https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term.git ::: enter this command in terminal too
3. Now build cool retro term
Above step will create cool-retro-term folder in which we run that command(mostly home).
4. Then you can open cool-retro-term either by using one of the 2 steps below:
step a: Execute following commands in terminal
cd cool-retro-term/
./cool-retro-term
step b: By using above step we should follow those 2 steps every time we wanna open our app. To avoid this we will create a shortcut to our app in dash. For this watch below video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2e4bHD5zJk
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