https://github.com/sfzhi/fbterm

Framebuffer terminal emulator
https://github.com/sfzhi/fbterm

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Framebuffer terminal emulator

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sfzhi/fbterm
• Owner: sfzhi
• License: gpl-2.0
• Created: 2015-02-21T13:14:42.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-10-02T23:32:03.000Z (about 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-21T12:27:40.425Z (5 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Size: 320 KB
• Stars: 42
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: ChangeLog
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
FbTerm - a fast FrameBuffer based TERMinal emulator for linux

DESCRIPTION

  FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for linux with frame buffer device or VESA video card. Features include:

  

  * mostly as fast as terminal of linux kernel while accelerated scrolling is enabled

  * 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 current locale and convert text encoding, 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

  * change the orientation of screen display, a.k.a. screen rotation

  * lightweight input method framework with client-server architecture

  * background image for eye candy

  read man page doc/fbterm.1 for usage help.

INPUT METHOD

  Instead of adding input method directly in FbTerm, a client-server based input method framework is designed to do 

this work. FbTerm acts as a client, standalone IM program as a server, and they run in seperated processes.

  As a normal IM user, please visit FbTerm's homepage (http://code.google.com/p/fbterm/) to check current available IM 

programs. If you want to develope a new IM program for FbTerm, there is a IM example in im/ directory, which help you to 

understand IM architecture and provide some base sources to simplify the development.