The FbTerm project is a fast terminal emulator for Linux, with frame buffer device.
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Here are some key features of "FbTerm":
· mostly as fast as terminal of Linux kernel while accelerated scrolling is enabled on framebuffer device
· select font with fontconfig and draw text with freetype2, same as Qt/Gtk+ based GUI apps
· dynamicly create/destroy up to 10 windows initially running default shell
· record scrollback history for every window
· auto-detect text encoding with current locale, support double width scripts like Chinese, Japanese etc
· switch between configurable additional text encodings with hot keys on the fly
· copy/past selected text between windows with mouse when gpm server is running
Requirements:
· Font Configuration Library
· FreeType2
· GPM
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· added support for text rendering with backround image
· added command-line arguments to customize command executed in sub-window
· added Alt-Fn and all FbTerm's shortcuts support when input method is actived
· added option "-v/--verbose" to show some useful information
· fixed some text color issues with version 1.4
· fixed encoding selection error when locale is C/POSIX
· fixed a bug where screen is cleared on startup even in inactive tty
· fixed a bug where variable HOME is not defined
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