FbTerm - a fast FrameBuffer based TERMinal emulator for linux

Changes since google code upstream

(this including my commits and others)

Features:

• configurable color palette up to 256 colors (involves multiple commits)
• use .config/fbtermrc as configuration file
• set TERM to 'fbterm' instead of 'linux' by default
• hardcode hinting level to normal

Fixes:

• unexpected character appears when toggling input method with Ctrl-Space
• use Ctrl-Alt-F[7-12] to avoid tty switching shortcuts
• some build errors

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.

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.