Vala-terminal
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Revision as of 11:49, 15 April 2009
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Overview
Command Line Terminal. It is written in (vala) programming-language. Vala produces c-code, which is then compiled binary form, so vala do not add any runtime requirements/dependeries.
This is official successor of openmoko-terminal2 (https://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/openmoko-community/2008/11/13/4084004/thread).
Features:
- Narrow toolbar
- Tabs
- Scrollbar
- Toolbar can be oriented horizontaly or vertically
- Zooming (Fontsize changing)
- Paste selected text (not really clipboard)
- handles -e parameter, like xterm and konsole in KDE (e.g. you can use it to start console applications with desktop-files: vala-terminal -e nano /etc/hosts)
Usage
Buttons in toolbar are loaded from Systems stock, so they can look different than in screenshots (please add, if your distro shows it differently)
Buttons
Buttons left to rigth:
- New - Open new tab
- Del - Close current tab
- + - Zoom in (raise font size)
- - - Zoom out (lower font size)
- Paste - Paste selected text (can be from another tab, not in another application)
- <- - Go previous tab
- -> - Go next tab
- [1/2] - Current tab / Total number of tabs
- Circle-arrow - Flips the toolbar to vertical (and vertical to horizontal)
Commandline parameters
- --help : manual
- -v : starts toolbar vertically
- -h : starts toolbar horizontally
- -fs size : starts with given fontsize
- -fc r g b : color of font (values between 0...65535)
- -bc r g b : color of background (values between 0...65535)
- -f fontname : Used font
- -e cmd : executes cmd (like xterm and konsole in KDE)
Tips
-e is very handy with desktop-files. You can start console applications from icons:
vala-terminal -e nano /etc/hosts
Examples
vala-terminal -v -fs 3 -f Ariel -fc 0 65535 0 -bc 65535 0 0 -e nano
Starts toolbar vertically (-v), fontsize 3 (-fs 3), using font Ariel (-f Ariel). Text is maximal green and background is maximal red. Executes automatically command 'nano'.
Download
opkg install http://www.opkg.org/packages/vala-terminal_1.1.1-r0.3_armv4t.opk
Building
It can be builded with this bitbake-recipe, but you must have valac version 0.5.6 (released 18.January 2009) installed ON YOUR HOST MACHINE.
It is just: (Who will make step-by-step walktrought how to install this in toolchain?)
wget http://download.gnome.org/sources/vala/0.5/vala-0.5.6.tar.bz2 tar -xvf vala-0.5.6.tar.bz2 cd vala-0.5.6 ./configure make make install
Bitbake-recipe:
DESCRIPTION = "The Openmoko Command Line Terminal" SECTION = "openmoko/applications" LICENSE = "GPL" HOMEPAGE = "http://git.freesmartphone.org/?p=vala-terminal.git" PKG_TAGS_${PN} = "group::applications" PV = "1.1.1" PR = "r0.3" #how to use git in bb? #SRC_URI = "git://git.freesmartphone.org/vala-terminal.git;proto=http" do_patch() { git clone git://git.freesmartphone.org/vala-terminal.git #so we first run autogen.sh (it will generate Makefile) mv vala-terminal vala-terminal-${PV} cd vala-terminal-${PV} ./autogen.sh \ --build=i486-linux-gnu \ --host=${TARGET_SYS} #Now we have Makefile and we can patch it to use host-systems valac (it generates c-code) sed 's/$(VALAC) -c/\/usr\/local\/bin\/valac -C/g' Makefile > Makefile_new mv Makefile_new Makefile } do_compile() { make arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-strip .libs/vala-terminal } do_install() { install -d ${D}${bindir} install -d ${D}${datadir}/pixmaps install -d ${D}${datadir}/applications install ${WORKDIR}/vala-terminal-${PV}/.libs/vala-terminal ${D}${bindir}/ install ${WORKDIR}/vala-terminal-${PV}/data/vala-terminal.png ${D}/${datadir}/pixmaps install ${WORKDIR}/vala-terminal-${PV}/data/vala-terminal.desktop ${D}${datadir}/applications }
Issues
If you have problems with the font on OM2008.12 (characters such as m, M, w, W, and @ overlap the character next to them), you probably missed ttf-liberation-mono -font.
Any good font in repositories?
How to use git in bitbake (rigth way)?
How to install valac to the toolchain?
Debians fontsize (5) is lots of smaller than OMs fontsize (5) (this can be handled with -fs size parameter)
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