termroom

TermRoom is a fullscreen, center-aligned terminal inspired by WriteRoom

TermRoom is a fullscreen terminal inspired by the famous WriteRoom text editor.

Download

Just grab the latest trunk revision.

Some use cases

  • launch termroom.py vim to get a WriteRoom-like Vim
  • launch termroom.py emacs -nw to get a WriteRoom-like Emacs

It should work with your favorite console based text editor too.

Customization

TermRoom tries to get color and font settings from a gnome-terminal profile called "TermRoom", falling back to the default one if "TermRoom" doesn't exist.

Requirements

GNOME, Python and the GNOME bindings for Python.

Thanks

The PyRoom developers, since TermRoom was adapted from it.

Screenshot

A screenshot of Vim running in TermRoom:

http://termroom.googlecode.com/files/screenshot.png

Project Information

  • License: GNU GPL v3
  • 17 stars
  • svn-based source control

Labels:
terminal shell gnome writeroom python text-editor vim emacs