Fedora EPEL 5 Update: fbterm-1.6-1.el5

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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0935
2009-12-01 17:50:58
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Name        : fbterm
Product     : Fedora EPEL 5
Version     : 1.6
Release     : 1.el5
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:

- Fixed [Bug 539186] FTBFS fbterm-1.5-2.fc12  - Upstream fixed [Bug 542284]
terminfo file for fbterm not included with fbterm package in fedora.  - Patch
for EL-5  - Upstream update:    1. added VESA video card support     2. added
rendering messages for IM server development     3. fixed a bug where Ctrl+Space
is a shortcut even user run FbTerm without "input-method" option     4. fixed a
bug where user compile FbTerm without gpm mouse support but run it in a gpm
server enabled environment     5. fixed a IM program dead loop bug triggered by
FbTerm's crash     6. fixed several spelling errors in FbTerm's help message and
man-page
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #539186 - FTBFS fbterm-1.5-2.fc12
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539186
  [ 2 ] Bug #542284 - terminfo file for fbterm not included with fbterm package in
fedora.
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=542284
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs.  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 EPEL GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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