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by DiabloD3 1650 days ago
Neat idea, but any reason why I can't also pipe the output to an existing terminal (ie, tmux-esque faux terminal resizing)?

Also, is this the company that forced the Electron-based terminal named Tabby to switch names?

Also, any reason terminals keep re-using the name of the old bitmap font that all of us Linux users back in the early 00s used? Terminus is a great font.

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It looks to me like Terminus (the app) decided to re-name themselves of their own accord. Granted it could be seen as doing so per-emptively.

> Terminus is too close to Termius - a commercial terminal app. This causes a number of users to end up on our issue tracker when they're actually looking for help with Termius - it's better to cover your butt before the lawsuit comes than regret it later.

> There's another terminal app that's literally called "Terminus" and is packaged under this name at least in Debian and Ubuntu repos.

> It just rolls of the tongue better

https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby/issues/4088#issue-933082027

It's more about easiness of doing it in the moment when you need help or to demonstrate something. It's especially helpful for less advanced users.

Can't comment on Tabby as we never contact them directly or in-directly. The same about the font, our company name is Termius :-)