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 Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 5:00 am Post subject: A new, lightweight, tabbed GTK2 terminal emulator [Ebuild!] |
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I've been working on it for a while now, but recently decided to port it from GTK-- to pure GTK+. It's now to the point where it will compile and run pretty well, with a few bugs:
Resizing is wonky. It will resize to greater than it's starting size, but not to less than it.
The backspace and delete keys will not work properly inside programs (fdisk, etc-update, etc). They work from the programs' perspective, but instead of deleting the character in the terminal it just gives either ^H (backspace) or ^[[3~ (delete)
I've not added keyboard shortcuts to it yet, mainly because I'm too lazy to. They worked in the GTK-- version, but GTK+'s menu API is deranged.
There may be memory leaks. Most seem to have been fixed when I moved to pure GTK+, but there may still be some.
No makefile. There's only one command to make it, but if somebody wants to whip up a Makefile or whatever just post it.
I don't have a website, so here's the code - just copy and paste into Vim (or whatever). Post patches, ideas, or code samples in this thread. You can e-mail them to me if you want (dorrin@gmail.com), but it's an open question if I will even see them for days (I check e-mail irreguarly, at best).
Compile it with:
| Code: | | g++ -Wall `pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --cflags --libs` `pkg-config vte --cflags --libs` -g terminal.cpp -o main |
Source code snipped. See below
Compiling it will give you a bunch of warnings about unused functions - don't worry about those (worry if any other warnings/errors show up). I have a bunch of signal handlers that need pruning, I just made one for every VTE signal and decided to remove some later.
It requires GTK2, pkg-config, and vte. All are in portage.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:09 am Post subject: |
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Compiles with gcc-04 030505 and ICC 8.0
Compiling with gcc 4 using -Os and stripping the binary makes a 23kb program.
For some reason the icc compiled version starts extremely slow.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 6:33 am Post subject: |
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Compiling with 3.4, -Os, and stripping makes a 14k one 
I wonder why it's slow in ICC...I'll emerge it, hopefully it's my bug and not GTK/VTE's. |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:05 am Post subject: |
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I can't seem to produce the slowness anymore. It must have been a fluke.
I did a little playing with icc's optimizations and got this.
| Code: | terminal.cpp(342) : (col. 32) remark: main has been targeted for automatic cpu dispatch.
/opt/intel/compiler80/include/c++/xutility(1671) : (col. 2) remark: LOOP WAS VECTORIZED.
/opt/intel/compiler80/include/c++/xutility(1670) : (col. 2) remark: _ZSt6fill_nIPP8GTermTabjS1_EvT_T0_RKT1_ has been targeted for automatic cpu dispatch. |
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| Code: | | icc -Wall -tpp6 -O3 -axK `pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --cflags --libs` `pkg-config vte --cflags --libs` -g terminal.cpp -o main |
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| Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| stonent wrote: | I can't seem to produce the slowness anymore. It must have been a fluke.
I did a little playing with icc's optimizations and got this.
| Code: | terminal.cpp(342) : (col. 32) remark: main has been targeted for automatic cpu dispatch.
/opt/intel/compiler80/include/c++/xutility(1671) : (col. 2) remark: LOOP WAS VECTORIZED.
/opt/intel/compiler80/include/c++/xutility(1670) : (col. 2) remark: _ZSt6fill_nIPP8GTermTabjS1_EvT_T0_RKT1_ has been targeted for automatic cpu dispatch. |
compiled using
| Code: | | icc -Wall -tpp6 -O3 -axK `pkg-config gtk+-2.0 --cflags --libs` `pkg-config vte --cflags --libs` -g terminal.cpp -o main |
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I don't know what that means
I tried to emege ICC, but it requires a license - quite frankly, they can bite me. If the slowness turns up again and you're able to track down why, I'd be glad to change the source, but it looks like I'll be sticking with gcc for now. |
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It means ICC found a loop that was able to be vector optimized. (Something not quite in gcc yet)
So, super-dooper optimized piece of code in there somewhere.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:33 am Post subject: |
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I've been doing some major updates. For one, there are now much fewer bugs. It still has
*The backspace/delete problem, but you can fix it by changing a line of source if you don't want to use the program 'screen'. However, if you make this change, 'screen' will no longer be able to detect the backspace key. If you want to change this setting, uncomment line 296 of gterm.cpp.
*Found a much better way to make menus, but have decided not to use shortcut keys for menu functions. Basically, they would interfere with some programs
*Still a few memory leaks, but many have been sealed.
Also, it has a few nifty features that I bloody love that I've not found in any other terminal emulator - namely, the ability to custom-name a tab (useful if you have many open to the same directory).
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See here
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:35 am Post subject: |
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| Why not setup a sourceforge account? |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:36 am Post subject: |
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| Saa wrote: | | Why not setup a sourceforge account? |
They needed me to tell them why my project was "unique" or "special" in some way. I decided to post this while getting an account set up.
EDIT: Waiting on approval for the hosting. If and when it gets approved, I'll move the stuff over there. |
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No more GNOME Terminal? YEAH!!!
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 3:56 am Post subject: |
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| wswartzendruber wrote: | | No more GNOME Terminal? YEAH!!! |
That's why I made it. To paraphrase somebody else that I forget the identity of:
| Quote: | | When I just want to install Gnome-terminal, it wants to install libgnome, libbonobo, gnome-vfs, gnome-themes, and gnome-plays-with-kittens |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 1:00 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, this I gotta try out. I rather wait for an ebuild though..  |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| I got a "ghetto" ebuild working. You'll have to re-make the archive if you downloaded it before the ebuild went up, it was in a structure Portage didn't like. Any who download it after this post should be fine. |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Lews_Therin wrote: | | I got a "ghetto" ebuild working. You'll have to re-make the archive if you downloaded it before the ebuild went up, it was in a structure Portage didn't like. Any who download it after this post should be fine. |
Were to download it? |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Q-collective wrote: | | Lews_Therin wrote: | | I got a "ghetto" ebuild working. You'll have to re-make the archive if you downloaded it before the ebuild went up, it was in a structure Portage didn't like. Any who download it after this post should be fine. |
Were to download it? |
Look up. I edited my second post in the thread. |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I have to say that I admire your work on this. When you get more bugs worked out of it, I'll definately be giving it a try. Thanks for the work on this, I've been wanting a term that has all the features you put into this, especially the ability to theme it with gtk, |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Saa wrote: | | I have to say that I admire your work on this. When you get more bugs worked out of it, I'll definately be giving it a try. Thanks for the work on this, I've been wanting a term that has all the features you put into this, especially the ability to theme it with gtk, |
Thanks. The bugs are really not bad at all, with the exception of the stupid Screen vs Properly Made Programs backspace thing. I'm reading through a bunch of stuff to try and figure out valgrind...hopefully I'll be able to remove most or all of the memory leaks.
Also, feel free to help fix the code  |
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I'd love to, but my extent of C knowledge is "hellow world"  |
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| Saa wrote: | | I'd love to, but my extent of C knowledge is "hellow world" |
how did you get that extra 'w' in there!??!?!?!
hehe, im still working on socket programming.... blehhh. i should really get a book; man pages piss me off....
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hehe: I just saw this thread and was about to say the same thing.
| Code: | | emerge xfce-extra/terminal |
But perhaps yours is better. |
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2005 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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That just substitues XFCE for GNOME. The less external library dependencies, the better. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 12:19 am Post subject: |
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Well, I've been trying to find and correct memory leaks...and have come to the conclusion that the "people" who work on font support for Linux are in reality well-trained monkeys. Here are some examples
| Code: | ==7113== 787389 bytes in 314 blocks are still reachable in loss record 132 of 132
==7113== at 0x1B904AD5: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:131)
==7113== by 0x1BF6BA90: (within /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.7) |
If I'm reading that correctly, that's a 787k memory leak. Here's another:
| Code: | ==7113== 466555 bytes in 1821 blocks are still reachable in loss record 130 of 132
==7113== at 0x1B904AD5: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:131)
==7113== by 0x1BFDDBD4: FcPatternFreeze (in /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.0.4) |
466k of memory, gone. 1.3 megabytes between these two leaks. The program leaks about 2.5 megabytes, and maybe 3/4 to 5/6 of that is from Freetype, Fontconfig, and Xft.
The 300 bytes my code was leaking doesn't seem so bad anymore. |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 1:52 am Post subject: |
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Woot, Tasslehoff has been kind enough to offer hosting until Sourceforge approves me. Here's a new ebuild to take advantage of that:
| Code: | # $Header: $
inherit eutils flag-o-matic
DESCRIPTION="Lightweight GTK2 terminal emulator"
HOMEPAGE=""
SRC_URI="http://gterm.php-scripter.com/${P}.tar.bz2"
LICENSE="GPLv2"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
IUSE=""
DEPEND="virtual/x11
>=x11-libs/gtk+-2.4
>=x11-libs/vte-0.11.11-r2"
src_compile() {
emake || die
}
src_install() {
mkdir -p ${D}usr/bin/
cp ${S}/gterm ${D}usr/bin/gterm
} |
Save it as x11-terms/gterm-0.1.1.ebuild in your overlay, digest it (ebuild gterm-0.1.1.ebuild digest) and emerge it.
Again - Thanks Tasslehoff!! |
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:41 am Post subject: |
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| It seems that VTE is the culprit behind the memory problems. It is using about 1.5 megabytes of RAM per open terminal. I can literally spawn a new instance of XTerm, swallow it in my app, and save 1 meg of memory per tab. |
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