VTE library inserts terminal capability strings into a tree of tables.

You could say that VTE is something of a research project of mine, based on the simple question: "if programs can use a termcap file (through either libtermcap or curses or ncurses) to determine how to drive a terminal, why can't a terminal emulator use a termcap file to determine how to behave?"

Update: the answer is most likely "because applications which use curses have more detailed information than that which is found in termcap".

What does VTE include?

VTE includes a library (libvte) which implements such a terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 2.2/2.4, and a sample application (vte) which wraps that widget 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 gnome-terminal.

How does it work?

The VTE library inserts terminal capability strings into a tree of tables, and then uses it to determine if data received from a pseudo-terminal is a control sequence or just random data. The sample program "interpret" illustrates more or less what the widget sees after it filters incoming data.


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Requirements:

· Font Configuration Library

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Don't override the widget background colour
· Add missing (closure) annotation on VteSelectionFunc (#655405, Evan Nemerson)
· use gtk_drag_check_threshold() (#654691, Dan Winship)
· Add urxvt extended mouse tracking mode support (#662423, Egmont Koblinger)
· Add runtime check for X11 display (#660151, Young-Ho Cha)
· Build fixes (#661121, #616001)
· Translation updates