Category Archives: programs

Quick Terminal ported into GTK4

Features

  • Native GTK4 application and window lifecycle
  • Movable, scrollable VTE terminal tabs
  • Double-click an existing tab title to open a new tab in the same directory
  • Asynchronous, cancellable shell startup
  • New tabs inherit the current terminal directory
  • /bin/bash as the default shell, with $SHELL and /bin/sh fallbacks
  • GTK4 actions, menus, dialogs, clipboard support, and file drops
  • LWM Graphite, LWM Dark, and LWM Blue themes
  • Bounded 1,024-line scrollback buffer per tab
  • Signal-safe tab removal through the GTK idle loop
  • Bytecode-free source archives and Debian package payload
  • Desktop entry, AppStream metadata, icon, manual page, tests, and Debian packaging

Graphite theme in action. Full project and its source code is available at its Github page: https://github.com/postman721/Quick-Terminal-GTK4

Lab Panel – Modular native StatusNotifier panel

New version of Lab Panel has been released.

Notable highlights include:

  • a Python-native org.kde.StatusNotifierWatcher
  • tray icons and DBusMenu drop-downs
  • a simple labwc/wlroots tasklist using wlrctl
  • GTK4 Layer Shell anchoring
  • optional user-level systemd support
  • Theme support
Lab panel alternative blue style.
Lab panel alternative blue style.

Code and instructions are available on project’s Github page: https://github.com/postman721/Lab_Panel

C++ QT6 updates are coming

Today, the following project went to QT6

nova music adjustment

https://github.com/postman721/Nova/tree/main

Dialog

https://github.com/postman721/CRunner-QT

Base player

https://github.com/postman721/Base_Player

video player

https://github.com/postman721/QPlayer

Updates and features will continue to come on weekends. Likely during March a new PostX Gnu/Linux is available.