You can share terminals with Flootty. In practice, it’s similar to a shared screen or tmux session.
Installation
Flootty requires Python 2.7 or later. Flootty can be installed via pip:
~$ pip install flootty
Collecting flootty
Downloading Flootty-3.2.0.tar.gz (60kB)
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Installing collected packages: flootty
Running setup.py install for flootty ... done
Successfully installed flootty-3.2.0
~$
Or you can clone the git repo:
~$ git clone https://github.com/Floobits/flootty.git
Cloning into 'flootty'...
remote: Counting objects: 2033, done.
remote: Total 2033 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 2033
Receiving objects: 100% (2033/2033), 432.15 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (1334/1334), done.
~$ cd flootty
~/flootty$ sudo python setup.py install
running install
...
Finished processing dependencies for Flootty==3.2.0
~/flootty$
Configuration
If you’ve already set up an editor plugin, you’re done! Otherwise, just add your Floobits credentials to your ~/.floorc.json.
Usage
To share a terminal, run the following, replacing owner with organization or username and workspace_name with the name of your workspace:
~$ flootty --url https://floobits.com/owner/workspace_name --create example_terminal_name
Terminal is safe. Other users will not be able to send [enter]
Connecting to https://floobits.com/owner/workspace_name
Connected!
Successfully joined https://floobits.com/owner/workspace_name
owner::workspace_name::example_terminal_name ~/$
Someone else can join that terminal by running:
~$ flootty --url https://floobits.com/owner/workspace_name example_terminal_name
Terminal is safe. Other users will not be able to send [enter]
Connecting to https://floobits.com/owner/workspace_name
Connected!
Successfully joined https://floobits.com/owner/workspace_name
owner::workspace_name::example_terminal_name ~/$
Shared terminals are also accessible in the web editor.
If a workspace only has one terminal, flootty will join it. There’s no need to specify a name.
You can skip specifying --url if you run flootty from a workspace directory. Flootty reads the .floo file in that directory to get the workspace info.
To write to a terminal, you must have admin permission in the workspace.