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Software: Terminator, Shutter, and GStreamer

By Roy Schestowitz Created 07/10/2020 - 5:30pm Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Wednesday 7th of October 2020 05:30:11 PM Filed under Software [1]

Terminator Terminal 2.0 Released, Completes Migration To Gtk3 And Python3[2]

Terminator, a feature-packed emulator for , has reached version 2.0 stable.

The application includes features such as split terminals (arranging terminals in grids_, saving and restoring custom layouts, terminal grouping, support for plugins, and customizable keyboard shortcuts.

After more than 4 years of work, the developers have finally finished migrating Terminator from Gtk2 to Gtk3, and from Python2 to Python3, with the latest Terminator 2.0 release.

Shutter Screenshot Tool PPA Updated For Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla[3]

I have updated the Shutter (screenshot tool) Ubuntu PPA I maintain to support the latest Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla, which will be released later this month. The PPA already supported Ubuntu 20.04 and 18.04.

Due to some packages being removed from the Ubuntu 20.10 repositories, I couldn't build the last Shutter stable version for Ubuntu 20.10, so I used the latest Shutter from Git, which removes some dependencies. This Shutter from Git continues to use the old Gtk2 (though a work in progress branch for Gtk3 exists, but it still needs work), but it has enough changes to get it to run on Ubuntu 20.10. However, don't expect it to make it back to the official repositories just yet, because I had to build quite a few of its dependencies in the PPA, due to them no longer being in the Ubuntu repositories.

Collabora & GStreamer 1.18 [4] It has been more than a year since the last official 1.16 release for the GStreamer project. There were good reasons for the long wait for 1.18 as much has changed since the previous release, with the biggest improvement being the move to Gitlab, a more productive environment. This has led to a significant increase in contributors, which now total 300 (200 more than 1.16!). In addition, 1.18 contains almost 4000 commits for only the core GStreamer repositories, as opposed to 3000 in 1.16. A full description of this important release can be found here.

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Links: [1] http://www.tuxmachines.org/taxonomy/term/38 [2] https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/10/terminator-terminal-emulator-20.html [3] https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/10/shutter-screenshot-tool-ppa-updated-for.html [4] https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/collabora-and-gstreamer-118.html