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    How can I show a borderless (Bash) shell terminal window on top of MM?

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      E3V3A
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      Hello!

      I would like to show a borderless (Bash) shell terminal window on top of MM.

      At first I thought I’d have not make an entire new MMM, but then realized it would have to
      involve a lot coding in JS and integration of xterm.js etc etc. which would be crazy, compared to just showing a terminal “on top” of MM. (Coping sdout to MMM iFrame wouldn’t do it since, I need the colored xterm with terminal graphics.)

      However, I would like the appeatrance to be controlled or activated by some MMM module.

      How would I best go about this?

      Or perhaps there’s already an MMM-xterm somewhere?

      "Everything I do (here) is for free – altruism is the way!"
      MMM-FlightsAbove, MMM-Tabulator, MMM-Assistant (co-maintainer)

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        ninjabreadman @E3V3A
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        @E3V3A You can experiment with urxvt and with URxvt*borderLess:true in .Xdefaults. You can then use ChildProcess.exec() (primer here) to launch urxvt which should also permit you to kill it from MM.

        Problem with config or JavaScript? Copy/paste it into JSHint.
        Check out the detailed walkthroughs on install, config, modules, etc.

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          E3V3A @ninjabreadman
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          @ninjabreadman Hi! Thanks, I knew about that, but was hoping to use the default lxterminal, but unfortunately it only allows --geometry=CHARACTERSxLINES as option.

          Your solution of using rxvt-unicode seem pretty good as it supports 256 colors etc. However, in the end, I decided that I’d rather have a native MMM, than just throwing a window on top of everything. That complicates things though. I simply don’t see how to go about implementing the JS version of xterm into a Module. Perhaps something to suggest in the requests area?

          Anyway, could be useful for all those people and command-line junkies, who want to see their raw python output.

          "Everything I do (here) is for free – altruism is the way!"
          MMM-FlightsAbove, MMM-Tabulator, MMM-Assistant (co-maintainer)

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