It would be useful and nice to have a light module that can display colored ANSI xterm shell output. This would be particularly useful when running shell programs that is using terminal as its primary output. I therefore propose to develop (unless already done?) a module called something like: MMM-Xterm for this purpose. What are your thoughts?

[image: demo2.png] [card:E3V3A/MMM-Tabulator] Hi Guys! I have finally completed my first module to demonstrate the use of Tabulator. Tabulator is an extremely flexible library to convert CSV, XML and JSON data into dynamic HTML tables. No more DOM writing No more HTML clutter Easy data modification, sorting and theming In my MMM-Tabulator repo, there are two different versions, showing the same data. In the native MagicMirror environment (and over server) and Directly by loading embedded JSON via HTML from demo.html. Cheers, E:V:A

@ninjabreadman Fantastic! Again, the best explanation I’ve heard! I love that juice analogy! Thank you so much for having patience with all my dumb questions. Surely a lot of them are trivial to most developers. (If you’re a moderator, feel free to mark this as solved.)

What is the exact startup order of a module? What is processed first and how can I learn/understand the process?

@cowboysdude Both? ;-)

@ninjabreadman Thank you very much for trying to help. But I’m pretty sure I tried that as well…at some point, giving me a “double” path. (Perhaps a browser cache issue?). Anyway, this is resolved, and I have a new problem of a completely different sort in this thread.

@raywo It’s now working and I’ve pushed all updates to repo. :) My first module…that does nothing. :D

@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.

@Mykle1 Thanks for your quick response.