Fluentterminal: A few bugs.

[spencerwooo]

First of all, I must say: Fluent Terminal is the future for Windows console! (For me)
It's just what I pictured - modern and fluent. I recommend it over Hyper, after using it a bit. So I look forward to seeing it on Microsoft Store.

There are some bugs (I'm running Fluent Terminal on Windows 1809, with WSL environments):

• clear only works after I run it twice, once makes the whole panel's text disappear. (Triggers randomly)

• Adjusting the opacity crashes the window. (Triggers randomly)
• variable-width characters rendering is still an issue, which appears to be an issue with xterm.js. I'm also having this issue with Hyper.
• Emoji, emoji, emoji. When can any terminal on Windows have proper Emoji support. ...( ＿ ＿)ノ｜

[spencerwooo]

A follow-up issue:

When running a dev server locally, I expect to Ctrl + Click on the url and invoke my default browser. Fluent Terminal didn't implement this. Hope you guys can look into this.

[hanskokx]

I don't have that issue with running clear. Maybe it's something with your environment?

A lot of us use Nerd Fonts for emoji. Maybe give that a shot and see if it solves that problem?

[spencerwooo]

Thank you! I'll definitely try Nerd Font!

clear still doesn't work...sometimes. I don't know what triggers it, but it fails occasionally. I'll try reinstalling Fluent Terminal and see if that solves the problem.

[spencerwooo]

Follow up: Nope, emoji still doesn't work.

You can see here that I changed my font to Fura Code NF, and I installed powerlevel9k. I expect to see 🐱 when I echo "🐱", but no, I still can't see Emojis.

Also, when I started using powerlevel9k, I came across another problem as issued here: Strange Character / Segment Spacing.

I encountered this issue on Hyper, VSCode integrated terminal and Fluent Terminal. Seems that xterm.js doesn't cope well with "Double-Width Characters". I'm not sure if there's something FluentTerm can do to fix this. Nevertheless, thanks again.

[felixse]

Yeah, we are somewhat limited to what xterm.js does support, but still way better than any parser/renderer I could have written 😄

Clickable links should be no big issue, I will put this on my todo. The crash when changing the opacity might be prevented by adding some delay to the update. I didn't encounter it so far on my machines, so I'm just guessing here

[spencerwooo]

Okay! Anyway, thank you again for such an amazing, fluent terminal! I seriously consider recommending it over Hyper on my tutorial repo where I introduce how to make WSL more pretty and work more seamlessly along with VSCode (But it's in Chinese). I look forward to seeing FluentTerm on the Windows Store! 👍👍👍

[Nufflee]

I also have the same issue with clear and crashing when changing opacity

[Nufflee]

@felixse Any updates about fixing these issues?

[ericcornelissen]

@Nufflee have a look at https://github.com/felixse/FluentTerminal/issues/107#issuecomment-447740514 🙂

[Nufflee]

ah, thanks @ericcornelissen :(

[spencerwooo]

@Nufflee Even not updated, FluTe is still much better, faster and prettier than similar products. (And I'm talking about Hyper, Terminus and other Electron based terminals.)

[Nufflee]

@spencerwooo It's awesome but it keeps crashing on me all the time out of nowhere and that completely beats the purpose..

[spencerwooo]

@Nufflee 🤔 Well for me it only crashes from time to time when I try to change its opacity. For other times, it just works fine. You could try to do a fresh install and see if that solves anything.

Also, since 1809, Windows' console fully supports ConPTY, which means that the default Ubuntu console and Powershell both support 256 colors. Worth waiting, FluTe can only get better.

[spencerwooo]

@felixse I think crashing when changing opacity is fixed with v0.3. Thanks ❤️

[spencerwooo]

@felixse Hey, good news! I think the character rendering issue is gone too! (With the update to xterm 3.0)

[themobiledev]

I'm on version 0.3.1.0, Windows 10.0.1753 and am seeing the blank terminal. The text appears once I start typing, but if I enter clear in PowerShell or WSL, the prompt and all text disappear again.

As a note, I'm also running this on a 4K monitor but am also seeing it when I move my terminal to my 1080p monitor as well.

[felixse]

I think most of this is fixed now. If something is left please create a new issues or search for an already existing.

[EvangelosKolimitras]

Hey guys! I just have an issue with the Terminal only when I use WSL.
For powershell and CMD it behaves, well normal but without any styling since the styling only applies to a WSL Terminal and not to a powershell which I am not fully aware why!

Here is a screenshot

Any ideas for a workaround?

UPDATE: The bugs occurs also with Powershell and cmd inside Fluent Terminal.

Thanks!