About:
GTerm comes in two parts. The GTerm core is a terminal emulator that knows how to process VT102 and VT52, but it does not have any interfacing to I/O devices. It has hooks for that. The second part is an example of the use of GTerm that provides much of the functionality of an xterm, but it will probably only run under Linux because it uses Linux-specific BSD-type pty's.

Author:
Timothy Miller <tim |at| techsource |dot| com> [contact developer]

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7.59/10.00 (2 votes)

Tar/GZ:
http://home.cfl.rr.com/theovon/gtermv1.tar.gz

Trove categories: [change]

[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries, Terminals :: Terminal Emulators/X Terminals

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default			GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

 Comments

[»] An unfinished, forgotten project
by Matthias - Jan 5th 2003 02:08:54

Well, the latest gterm release is now 4 years old, but...

It does not compile with a recent compiler, but the changes to make it compile are simple. After compiling, you will notice, that gterm closes shortly after startup due to a typo in the main loop.

If it works so far, you find, that it is not a working terminal emulator in the modern sence. Some random points (no specific order):
-Resizing is not reported to the tty
-no X copy&paste
-errors in color handling (e.g. "less" does not work correctly)
-no handling of input longer than 80 chars

Unfortunately, no comment about the instabilities and missing features is stated anywhere in the tarball.

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[»] Re: An unfinished, forgotten project
by barrett9h - Jun 7th 2004 16:11:44

very unfortunate. it would be cool to have the guts of vt emulation separated, so we can make our own terminal emulator easely. i wonder if the problems you mentioned are in the core library, or in the gterm sample application..

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