Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display

Re:Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old... by teddyh on Thursday October 02, 2014 @03:30AM (#8399724)

See also “Phosphor”¹, a screen saver part of XScreenSaver², but also usable as a terminal:

    /usr/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor -scale 2 -delay 0 $SHELL

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Re:Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old... by g047f4c3 on Thursday October 02, 2014 @09:50AM (#8400691)

Also xscreensaver-data-extra,

  /usr/lib/xscreensaver/apple2 -text -fast -program $SHELL

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Re:Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old... by teddyh on Thursday October 02, 2014 @06:11AM (#8400090)

Working command:

    /usr/lib/xscreensaver/phosphor -scale 2 -delay 0 -program $SHELL

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Re:Cool-retro-term: A terminal emulator which mimics the old... by thrownaway2424 on Thursday October 02, 2014 @01:27PM (#8401853)

I'd love to know if the authors of this thing were unaware of the 15-year-old phosphor hack, or if they were inspired by it.

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