Fedora 9 Update: fbterm-1.5-1.fc9
updates at fedoraproject.org
updates at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jun 30 21:21:39 UTC 2009
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-5049
2009-05-15 22:46:06
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Name : fbterm
Product : Fedora 9
Version : 1.5
Release : 1.fc9
URL : http://code.google.com/p/fbterm/
Summary : A frame buffer terminal emulator
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
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Update Information:
- Upstream update: 1. added support for text rendering with backround image
2. added command-line arguments to customize command executed in sub-window
3. added Alt-Fn and all FbTerm's shortcuts support when input method is actived
4. added option "-v/--verbose" to show some useful information 5. fixed some
text color issues with version 1.4 6. fixed encoding selection error when
locale is C/POSIX 7. fixed a bug where screen is cleared on startup even in
inactive tty 8. fixed a bug where variable HOME is not defined -
rpmpack.patch is to allow rpm buildable for non-root account.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
su -c 'yum update fbterm' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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