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Prompt – A terminal for a container-oriented desktop

127 pointsby jcastroover 1 year ago

8 comments

p4bl0over 1 year ago
This looks interesting but I&#x27;m clearly missing something. Could someone explain what does this terminal do for containers and flatpaks? Even reading the linked blog post didn&#x27;t help me, probably because I only use containers a little and no flatpaks at all so I have no experience with what would make using them more confortable (if that is indeed the point?).<p>Thanks!<p>EDIT: Ah, looking at the screenshots on the project&#x27;s page I see that it has a menu listing running containers which allows to directly open a terminal tab with a shell running inside the selected container. Is that it or is there more to it?<p>What about flatpaks? Do flatpaks actually work like containers?
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haolezover 1 year ago
It just occurred to me that a container-based desktop is an over engineered statically linked userspace :)
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haikuyaover 1 year ago
Very cool, direct install link: <i>flatpak install --user --from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nightly.gnome.org&#x2F;repo&#x2F;appstream&#x2F;org.gnome.Prompt.Devel.flatpakref" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;nightly.gnome.org&#x2F;repo&#x2F;appstream&#x2F;org.gnome.Prompt.De...</a></i>
aliasxneoover 1 year ago
I just started researching Project Bluefin a few weeks ago. Will probably make the jump to it as my primary development machine very shortly. Thanks for sharing this great project.
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bketelsenover 1 year ago
yes! I&#x27;ve been using the nightly for a few weeks now and this is as close to the perfect terminal as I&#x27;ve found. I love the integration with containers, I do next to nothing on the host itself, instead using Distrobox and Incus. Prompt makes that delightful.
nolist_policyover 1 year ago
&gt; To give Prompt the best chance at tracking containers and foreground processes a prompt-agent runs from the host system.<p>Interesting so is that a package that needs to be installed on the host or does flatpak allow running executables outside the namespace?
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moondevover 1 year ago
I really like the &quot;tab overview&quot; interface and animations. Very slick and functional.
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sureglymopover 1 year ago
I love that Ctrl+Scroll to zoom is built in! Always missed that in Gnome terminal and had to use Wezterm.