applications/system

fbterm - A frame buffer terminal emulator

Website: http://code.google.com/p/fbterm/
License: GPLv2+
Vendor: Fedora Project
Description:
FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for linux with frame buffer device.
Features include:
- 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

Packages

fbterm-1.6-1.el5.src [184 KiB] Changelog by Ding-Yi Chen (2009-11-30):
- Fixed [Bug 539186] FTBFS fbterm-1.5-2.fc12
- Upstream fixed [Bug 542284] terminfo file for fbterm not included with fbterm package in fedora.
- Patch for EL-5
- Upstream update:
  1. added VESA video card support 
  2. added rendering messages for IM server development 
  3. fixed a bug where Ctrl+Space is a shortcut even user run FbTerm without "input-method" option 
  4. fixed a bug where user compile FbTerm without gpm mouse support but run it in a gpm server enabled environment 
  5. fixed a IM program dead loop bug triggered by FbTerm's crash 
  6. fixed several spelling errors in FbTerm's help message and man-page

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