[FEATURE] Make the retro terminal mode more configurable #20382

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opened 2026-01-31 07:12:04 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @skunkmommy on GitHub (Aug 20, 2023).

Description of the new feature/enhancement

Retro terminal mode looks cool, but it also makes text really hard to see on my secondary (which is a crappy old Dell) and doesn't do much of anything on my primary (a 1080p tv, idk size in inches)
I'd like if it were more configurable, so that I could tweak it to be more/less effective.

Proposed technical implementation details (optional)

Allow the following to be changed:

  • Width of scanlines
  • Size of the gap between two scanlines
  • How dark that gap is
  • How much glow is added to text; 0% is none, 100% is current, and 200% is 2x the current amount.

These settings should be applied on a per-monitor basis, since different monitors will need different amounts of tweaking.

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Reference: starred/terminal#20382