Cool-Retro-Term Is A Great Mimic Of Old Terminals, Available for Ubuntu 14.10/14.04/Linux Mint 17

Cool-retro-term is a free terminal emulator developed by Filippo Scognamiglio, it mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. If you are tired of your current terminal than it comes in hand as eye-candy, it is customizable and reasonably lightweight terminal emulator. It uses the Konsole engine which is powerful and mature, it requires Qt 5.2 or higher to run terminal emulator.
It has pre-configured templates so you can use them with just one click, profiles includes: Amber, Green, Scanlines, Pixelated, Apple ][, Vintage, IBM Dos, IBM 3287, and Transparent Green. Further more you can create your own profile and use it.
It's preferences offers a lot of customization: you can adjust brightness, contrast, and opacity; font; font scaling and width; cool effects for terminal; and you can control FPS, texture quality, scanlines quality, and bloom quality. Further more you can dive into settings to change colors, shadows etc.





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To install Cool-Retro-Term in Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:


For Ubuntu 14.04 enable "Canonical Partner" repository to install dependencies:
Open "Software & Updates" from Dash then go to "Other Software" tab and enable Canonical Partner repositories from here (see following image). In Linux Mint 17 you don't need to do this.

To install Cool-Retro-Term in Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 17 open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

To run Cool-Retro-Term use following command in Terminal or go to folder and run it:
That's it