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authorNalin Dahyabhai <nalin@src.gnome.org>2002-04-26 04:49:30 +0000
committerNalin Dahyabhai <nalin@src.gnome.org>2002-04-26 04:49:30 +0000
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Run autogen before tagging so that the tag is always correct.
Update docs. Add pangox to the list of GTK+ 2.0 modules we link with. Add vte_terminal_set_scrollback_lines(), add some code to use pangox for rendering before trying core rendering, which should make font selection actually work.
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* What does VTE include?
- VTE includes a library (libvte) which implements such a terminal emulator
widget for GTK+ 2.0, and a sample application (vte) which wraps that widget
- in a GTK window.
+ in a GTK window. Because I'm more concerned with whether or not it works,
+ all settings are hard-coded to whatever I needed to test the last time I
+ touched it. If you actually want to use the widget to get work done, you
+ should probably be using profterm.
* How does it work?
- The VTE library inserts terminal capability strings into a trie, and then
@@ -16,6 +19,8 @@
what the widget actually sees after it filters incoming data.
* What's missing?
+- Accessibility isn't started yet.
+- Mouse tracking isn't started yet.
- Entries in the termcap file also don't contain the sequences which a terminal
is supposed to send to the application when a specific sequence is received
(for example, the query-cursor-position control sequence). This mostly looks
@@ -34,5 +39,3 @@
things is currently scarce, so some of it's guesswork.
- An actual property interface needs to be retrofitted over the various options
which are currently hard-coded at startup-time.
-- Accessibility isn't started yet.
-- Mouse tracking isn't started yet.