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* What does VTE include?
- VTE includes a library (libvte) which implements such a terminal emulator
widget for GTK+ 2.0, and a sample application (vte) which wraps that widget
- in a GTK window.
+ 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 profterm.
* How does it work?
- The VTE library inserts terminal capability strings into a trie, and then
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what the widget actually sees after it filters incoming data.
* What's missing?
+- Accessibility isn't started yet.
+- Mouse tracking isn't started yet.
- Entries in the termcap file also don't contain the sequences which a terminal
is supposed to send to the application when a specific sequence is received
(for example, the query-cursor-position control sequence). This mostly looks
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things is currently scarce, so some of it's guesswork.
- An actual property interface needs to be retrofitted over the various options
which are currently hard-coded at startup-time.
-- Accessibility isn't started yet.
-- Mouse tracking isn't started yet.