termux-overlay view

[matyapiro31]

Always show termux console above other apps
Linux command line tools for Android is not only for running linux application, but also helping other Android apps.
There are many stuff you feel hard to do without linux command line tool and also you must use GUI app.
Then I suggest termux-api-overlay.

This API enables you to show termux terminal over other app.

I think it's somehow difficult, mostly easily to do with using Android Overlay fullscreen app support API.
It needs new permission, android.permission.SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW.

[xalexalex]

Did you take a look at Termux:float?

[matyapiro31]

Yes, I have, but I want to do it more freely.

This should be as enhancement to Termux:Float as such functionality has nothing to do with Android API methods.

[xalexalex]

To be honest I still haven't looked into this and don't know the difference between what this issue is proposing and the functionality that termux:float already provides. Anyway I agree with you; moving to the correct repo. (edited to add: whoops, I can't move to termux:float)

More details needed regarding:

I want to do it more freely

[lapisxalpha]

This is too late for the recent update to 1.7 but if you're looking for comment from someone who uses it extensively despite its limits... I'm using it on a Google TV box with a bluetooth mouse and keyboard. I have no touchscreen, and therefore cannot use pinch gestures to change the size of the window... for a LONG time it was useless to me because the default window size is so small that I couldn't see what I was doing in it. Fortunately I am very stubborn, and would up analyzing the app to find the config file location and structure. I was not able to change anything in the app so it never created one... for those having this trouble, the only way I found to change the saved state without a touchscreen was to edit the file /data/data/com.termux.window/shared_prefs/com.termux.window_preferences.xml... Termux float shares its id with Termux itself so they can read and write each other's files... so as long as you know the path you can edit it from termux with nano or whatever you like. Mine looks like this: ...

/com.termux.window/shared_prefs $ cat com.termux.window_preferences.xml

.../com.termux.window/shared_prefs $

If there's any other desktop users out there besides me that find this useful please make your voice heard! This is too useful of an app to let languish, and it could use some usability updates, PLEASE.

The minimizing is nice, but because it is otherwise a fixed size, I am always trying to jockey it around the screen and scroll the underlying page to a usable position so that I can read from it and type into the floating window or vice versa.

If I got more than one wish, the next one would be proper cut and paste support. Because clicking anywhere in the window moves it, I am unable to select text to copy or set an insert point for pasting. This would more than double the application's value to me, and save a ton of time switching back to the main termux app. All that might? be necessary is to make the window draggable by its title bar only, toggleable in preferences if the current behavior is necessary somehow. (would be nice if it were that simple). Even if it came down to just a button to paste at the cursor instead of the usual system selection pop-up it would be very useful.

If the genie were very generous, the last one would be multiple tabs. I realize that termux was conceived when almost everything was touchscreen, but docks are becoming more and more common, and making it more desktop friendly would be a great addition.

Thanks for reading this to the end (if you did :-), and making such a cool and useful tool for the Android community.

Oh yea, anything to stop the LMKD from targeting it would be good too...I've done all the usual tricks and energy optimization is off but maybe adding it to alarms and timers or accessibility would help?

[lapisxalpha]

WTF... it won't let me paste it... probably thinks its HT*L code. I'm going to remove the angle brackets from the beginning of each line. That worked. You will have to insert a left angle bracket at the beginning of each line that ends with a right angle bracket.

.../com.termux.window/shared_prefs $ cat com.termux.window_preferences.xml
?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ?>
map>
int name="log_level" value="0" />
int name="window_width" value="1129" />
int name="window_height" value="810" />
int name="window_x" value="791" />
int name="window_y" value="84" />
/map>
.../com.termux.window/shared_prefs $

[robertkirkman]

Oh yea, anything to stop the LMKD from targeting it would be good too

There is disabling phantom process killing following this https://github.com/agnostic-apollo/Android-Docs/blob/master/en/docs/apps/processes/phantom-cached-and-empty-processes.md#commands-to-disable-phantom-process-killing-and-tldr ( Android Settings -> System -> Developer options -> Disable child process restrictions ) but if you already have that set and Termux is still closing when you use too much memory, the only other thing I have seen that can work is this: sudo bash -c "echo 0 > /sys/module/lowmemorykiller/parameters/enable_lmk" it works on one of my devices however it not only requires root, but also only works on devices where that file exists which isn't most devices.

[robertkirkman]

proper cut and paste support

it is otherwise a fixed size

clicking anywhere in the window moves it

these are all fixed/not problems in this PR, which could be viewed as a possible alternative to Termux:Float

• feat: multi window support termux-app#4961

multiple tabs

this is available in my fork of Android 16 Terminal which is connectable to Termux, but I assume the PR above probably meets more of your needs, despite not having tabs.

https://github.com/robertkirkman/TerminalApp

both of these links are unofficial; the PR link above could be official if it is merged in the future, but it currently is unofficial.

[lapisxalpha]

Wow... wasn't expecting a reply while I was still typing, and this is getting a bit off topic, but that's awesome, I'm gonna go snag those... and while we're exchanging tricks, this is what I've done about the LMKD. Some of it helps some doesn't. I'm not rooted:

OH AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

.../etc/profile.d $ cat 00-adb.sh
#!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/sh
# /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/etc/profile.d/00-adb.sh
# https://github.com/raduprv/termux-api/blob/master/Android%20Termux%20stuff

echo "   Starting ADB server daemon..."

adb start-server

# Disable doze mode on Android 7+
adb shell "dumpsys deviceidle disable"

# Disabling various Android things that kill your processes

adb shell "/system/bin/device_config set_sync_disabled_for_tests persistent; /system/bin/device_config put activity_manager max_phantom_processes 2147483647; settings put global settings_enable_monitor_phantom_procs false"
adb shell "/system/bin/device_config put activity_manager power_check_max_cpu_1 256; /system/bin/device_config  put activity_manager power_check_max_cpu_2 256; /system/bin/device_config  put activity_manager power_check_max_cpu_3 256; /system/bin/device_config  put activity_manager power_check_max_cpu_4 256;"
adb shell "settings put global activity_manager_constants power_check_max_cpu_1=256; settings put global activity_manager_constants power_check_max_cpu_2=256; settings put global activity_manager_constants power_check_max_cpu_3=256; settings put global activity_manager_constants power_check_max_cpu_4=256;"

# Allowing your app to recive alarms more often when not idle (every minute)

adb shell "settings put global alarm_manager_constants min_interval=60000"
adb shell "/system/bin/device_config put alarm_manager_constants min_interval 60000"

# Allow background apps to run longer from broadcast receivers (such as all termux api stuff).
# It will show the App not responding menu, rather than kill it.
# Not ideal, but there is no other way of disabling this restriction without recompiling some Android source code:

#adb shell "settings put secure anr_show_background 0"
adb shell "settings put secure anr_show_background 1"
 
# Make the app receive more alarms than allowed while idle (once evey 9 minutes or so),
# and allowing it to do more work while it's idle. For some reason it doesn't work on LineageOS 22.

adb shell "settings put global alarm_manager_constants allow_while_idle_long_time=20000,allow_while_idle_whitelist_duration=300000"
adb shell "/system/bin/device_config put alarm_manager_constants allow_while_idle_long_time 20000"
adb shell "/system/bin/device_config put alarm_manager_constants allow_while_idle_whitelist_duration 300000"

# Tune lmkd for minimal killing
#adb shell "setprop ro.lmk.use_minfree_levels true; \
#setprop ro.lmk.low 1300; \
#setprop ro.lmk.medium 1100; \
#setprop ro.lmk.critical 300; \
#setprop ro.lmk.critical_upgrade true; \
#setprop ro.lmk.upgrade_pressure 100; \
#setprop ro.lmk.kill_heaviest_task true; \
#setprop sys.lmk.minfree_levels '14745,18432,22118,29491,36864,58982'; \
#killall lmkd"
.../etc/profile.d $

[robertkirkman]

I DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL THAT NONSENSE IS BUT IT WAS JUST A PLAIN TEXT FILE WHEN i PASTED IT. I GUESS IT DOESN'T LIKE SHELL SCRIPT COMMENTS?

Put three ` symbols before and after your text to prevent formatting

[robertkirkman]

Like this

\`\`\`
text 1
text 2
\`\`\`

but without the \ symbols

[lapisxalpha]

robertkirkman:

Thank you, I'll do that in the future. A few points:

A. the three backquotes fixed it above. Thanks... I don't know where you learned that.

B. I tried the two.termux fork and after launching it with the taskbar app, which supports multiwindow launching, it did appear in a small window in the middle of the screen, but there is no way to resize or move it (the window has no title bar like in the images, and none appears on mouseover or click. My googletv android build does not seem to like it, so a termux-float update would still be very much appreciated.

C. That Android 16 Terminal fork is AWESOME, especially if it reallly supports sixel? It works in termux, and you'll be happy to know with a little tweaking on my end to your ttyd command, it your terminal app also works flawlessly with my custom shell environment, Casper, (still on the same android device, with a different ttyd binary). I really hope you can flesh it out with some more preferences, font size, etc. It even picked up my changed window titles in the tabs. THANK YOU!

D. I'd like to discuss it with you more, but there is no contact info on your github page (or mine, for that matter :-), and this is arguably getting off topic. I can't wait to see where all of this goes, though. Thanks for your help...again.

[robertkirkman]

especially if it reallly supports sixel?

Yes, it does!

I really hope you can flesh it out with some more preferences, font size, etc. It even picked up my changed window titles in the tabs. THANK YOU!

much of the internal functionality is implemented by ttyd, so the documentation of ttyd there might help, there is configurable font size documented there.

You should be able to add settings by either editing the URL in the settings of my app to add URL arguments with &, or adding --client-option arguments to the ttyd command launch.

(the official version of Android 16 Terminal was also implemented using a build of ttyd managed by Google, so how I created the fork is by making it connect to the ttyd package of Termux instead)

D. I'd like to discuss it with you more, but there is no contact info on your github page (or mine, for that matter :-), and this is arguably getting off topic. I can't wait to see where all of this goes, though. Thanks for your help...again.

I am @owokitty on discord and @robertkirkman:gitter.im on matrix, and if your discussion is related to the Android 16 Terminal fork you can open an issue there and ping me.