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Sunday, March 7, 2021

Fedora 33 : Electron based terminal named Hyper.

Hyper is an Electron-based terminal built on HTML/CSS/JS.
About Electron is an open-source software framework developed and maintained by GitHub.
The original Hyper renderer was based on the DOM, and now Hyper 3 use Electron from V1 to V3 and is tested with V4.
You can install multiple plugins and themes to make your work easier.
The install process is easy, just download the RPM package and use the DNF tool to install it:
[root@desk mythcat]# dnf install Downloads/hyper-3.0.2.x86_64.rpm 
Last metadata expiration check: 0:14:49 ago on Sun 07 Mar 2021 11:22:49 AM EET.
Dependencies resolved.
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 Package        Architecture    Version             Repository             Size
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Installing:
 hyper          x86_64          3.0.2-3440          @commandline           37 M

Transaction Summary
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Install  1 Package

Total size: 37 M
Installed size: 141 M
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
  Preparing        :                                                        1/1 
  Installing       : hyper-3.0.2-3440.x86_64                                1/1 
  Running scriptlet: hyper-3.0.2-3440.x86_64                                1/1 
  Verifying        : hyper-3.0.2-3440.x86_64                                1/1 

Installed:
  hyper-3.0.2-3440.x86_64                                                       

Complete!
The Hyper terminal is installed on the LXDE main menu on the Other submenu.
You can find more information on the official webpage.
The next image is a screenshot from my Fedora 33 distro with Hyper terminal.