wishes: maximize pattern, dropdown hotkey, debian package

[gijsbers]

1. When I maximize roxterm with Alt+F10 (WM key) then briefly a pattern is shown in the area of the terminal which is enlarged. It is slightly annoying. This is more apparent if I keep Alt+F10 pressed down, which causes quite some pattern flickering. Could this be prevented somehow? Like for instance, give the X11 window a solid background, or a stylesheet which sets it to the background color.
2. It would be nice if roxterm would easily support a dropdown hotkey, like tilda and guake do.
3. Now many distributions either carry an old version like 2.9.5 or don't have a roxterm package. Could you perhaps, occasionally, submit an updated version to Debian? This would hopefully improve the availability of roxterm and the recent improvements.

[realh]

1. I don't see any sort of pattern when maximizing, just a smooth animation (with GNOME on Wayland). This might be the same as Set GtkWindow background color to terminal background color #180.

2. People have asked for that before, but I think it's something that's quite different from the normal way of using roxterm. Quake-style terminals seem to be aimed at people who just run commands occasionally, whereas roxterm suits having one or more terminal windows open all day, with multiple tabs, running neovim etc. You should be able to configure your desktop environment to run roxterm when a certain key is pressed.

3. Try adding the PPA to your sources.list; it should work with most deb distros, although Debian stable might be older than Ubuntu LTS at the moment, which could stop the binary package from working. In that case there are tools which can automate keeping a package up-to-date from a deb-source, and roxterm doesn't take long to build.

There used to be a debian package maintainer, but he kind of disappeared. I took over for a while as a sponsored maintainer, but I really didn't like the release process for that and didn't bother starting it up again when I brought roxterm back for version 3.5. I use Arch on all my PCs now. The VPS for my website runs Debian stable, which is OK for maintaining my PPA, but you really need an "unstable" system or sandbox to create a package for Debian proper. Occasional releases wouldn't work well, because I'd keep getting nagged if the .deb got out of date.

[gijsbers]

1. Maybe it doesn't happen with Wland. Here are two examples. See the pattern is different each time.