Anyone recommend a Terminal App?

[Guest wi-fli]

Hi all,

I wanted to use a terminal (command shell) on the actual tablet, just 'cos I'm an inveterate Linux tinkerer at heart. But I tried "Terminal Emulator" from the market, and I can't seem to get any way to interact with it (no keyboard comes up).

Can anyone recommend a terminal that actually works on the Vega?

Cheers.

[Guest Higgsy]

Hi all,

I wanted to use a terminal (command shell) on the actual tablet, just 'cos I'm an inveterate Linux tinkerer at heart. But I tried "Terminal Emulator" from the market, and I can't seem to get any way to interact with it (no keyboard comes up).

Can anyone recommend a terminal that actually works on the Vega?

Cheers.

terminal emulator works fine for me

[Guest wi-fli]

Hmm,

do you use smart keyboard pro?

[Guest emergant]

Hi all,

I wanted to use a terminal (command shell) on the actual tablet, just 'cos I'm an inveterate Linux tinkerer at heart. But I tried "Terminal Emulator" from the market, and I can't seem to get any way to interact with it (no keyboard comes up).

Can anyone recommend a terminal that actually works on the Vega?

Cheers.

I use connectbot it is also an ssh client which may come in handy

[Guest crockwit]

Hold the back button down to bring up the menu on Terminal Emulator. You can then toggle the keyboard. Better Terminal Emulator (a paid for app) has extra shell versions but if you enable them the app gives a segmentation fault. The author of Better Terminal Emulator is working on the bugs caused by the tegra 2 hardware. When he gets it working it is worth paying for.

[Guest wi-fli]

I just tried connectbot, and it works fine. However, in its "help" section on soft keyboards it says only use it in portrait. So I then tried Terminal Emulator in portrait and it works with the soft keyboard.

Doh... why didn't I think of that before?

Thanks everyone for the help, I got there in the end.

[Guest ptbw]

I wanted to use a terminal (command shell) on the actual tablet, just 'cos I'm an inveterate Linux tinkerer at heart. But I tried "Terminal Emulator" from the market, and I can't seem to get any way to interact with it (no keyboard comes up).

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I am using the GB keyboard and the terminal emulator works fine for me. Button saviour works well for bringing up the menu to toggle keyboard input etc

Looks like our posts just crossed. Happy new year. Glad you sorted it.

Edited December 31, 2010 by ptbw

[Guest Higgsy]

Hmm,

do you use smart keyboard pro?

yup hold down back button then select toggle soft keyboard

[Guest wi-fli]

Thanks again to everyone, and happy new year!!!