Terminator 1.92 released

Do you still remember the project Terminator? People around the world are still using this tool as their terminal emulator of choice for Linux- and Unix-based systems (including Mac OS).

Unfortunately the development stagnated a bit since 2017 and within the last three years there had to be a lot of things to do. Terminator is written in Python, it had to be migrated to Python 3 for example, as distributions started to think about dropping support for Python 2. Packagers of several distributions started maintaining their own patches to support Terminator with Python 3, until today.

Two weeks ago, things have changed. A project at GitHub as been created, the source code has been migrated from Bazaar to Git and even some package maintainers from Arch Linux and Fedora contributed and were working hard towards whats happened this weekend. There is a Terminator 1.92 release available and you can find Terminator at it's new home here: https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator.

The update for Terminator 1.92 includes a lot of interesting changes you surely were waiting for, including the support for Python 3 and a bunch of bug fixes, for example you can now open links with just Ctrl+Click on the link. You can find a detailed change log right here: https://github.com/gnome-terminator/terminator/releases.

Of course, Fedora is one of the first distributions to update Terminator to 1.92 and if you're using Fedora or a RHEL8 based system, you can shortly update to it via:

dnf -y --enable-repo=updates-testing terminator

As usual you can leave your feedback and some Karma for the update:

• Fedora 30: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-ac15a5672d
• Fedora 31: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-2bfbbeec99
• Fedora 32: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-51d508ac25
• EPEL8: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-6850774286

The Terminator development team at GitHub will be lucky if you want to support the project and join. You don't need to be a programmer to support, in an open source project there is always something to do.

Geany and Geany-Plugins for EPEL8

If you're a lucky user of a RedHat Enterprise Linux based system, you're probably already aware of the Enterprise Packages for Enterprise Linux from the Fedora Project. In case you've missed the flyweight IDE Geany and it's plugins there this is probably some good news for you: Geany is coming to EPEL8 soon!

The update will hit the testing repositories in the next days and needs your karma here:

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-5392d2e45e

Rex 1.9.0 available in Fedora updates-testing repositories

Version 1.9.0 of the friendly automation framework named Rex is now available in Fedoras updates-testing repositories. If you're into DevOps and automation and need some alternatives to Ansible, Puppet or Salt, this one probably is for you.

You will be able to install this via dnf command:

dnf -y install Rex --enable-repo=updates-testing

I appreciate any Feedback or Karma on this update at the following links:

* Fedora 30: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-9f1073beef
* Fedora 31: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-c26768cb4d
* Fedora 32: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2020-3a91c1ac15

editorconfig-geany available for Fedora via Copr

Just a small note for interested Geany users on Fedora: The Geany plugin for EditorConfig [1] is now available as a RPM package via Copr. You can pull it from [2] or directly install it with the following commands:

sudo dnf copr enable dmaphy/editorconfig-geany
sudo dnf -y install editorconfig-geany

I'm still working on getting it to the official Fedora repositories and will surely let you know when done.

[1] https://github.com/editorconfig/editorconfig-geany
[2] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dmaphy/editorconfig-geany/