Re: Termite's terminfo

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 07:47:45AM +0300, IFo Hancroft wrote:
> I have just checked the branches and versions.
> Termite does use a recent VTE version (I believe it is even up to date with
> VTE's current development version, not just the latest stable), though VTE's
> versions are confusing (at least for me) with being called VTE3, while being
> named and installed as VTE 2.91 while the version is actually 0.48.3
> according to https://developer.gnome.org/vte/

I haven't looked for a few months, but as I recall, termite used/uses
an older release of VTE which had some differences added by the termite
developers (who weren't making progress on getting VTE's developer to
incorporate those changes).

When I tested the termite terminal description, I found that there was
a package in Arch Linux which I could use, which required replacing the
newer version of VTE with the other.

I did that with a virtual machine, so I could reopen that investigation
(making a snapshot, install/test, revert, etc).  Takes time.
 
This doesn't mention that - so retesting seems more straightforward:

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/termite/
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/termite&id=3cb1a3f4d85c668e025b996e599fd7ec83a09166

but VTE's version numbering (and what packagers do with it) isn't
straightforward.  Perhaps sometime VTE's developer will get around
to writing some documentation.

> Anyway, my point is, Termite's terminfo can get updated to just:
> termite|VTE-based terminal,
> use=vte,

it's on my to-do list

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