vte for FC3/FC4 testing

John Thacker thacker at math.cornell.edu
Thu Mar 10 23:43:10 UTC 2005


On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 04:45:03PM -0600, Mike Chambers wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 00:35 -1000, Warren Togami wrote:
> > Seeing that nobody at RH changed vte since November 2004, I went ahead 
> > and made this test package.  Since changes to vte are usually quite 
> > sensitive I am testing it out-of-tree first.  If you are annoyed by the 
> > glacial slowness of FC3 gnome-terminal, try the below packages.
> > 
> > http://people.redhat.com/wtogami/temp/vte-FC3/
> > http://people.redhat.com/wtogami/temp/vte-FC4/
> 
> Ok, this is a very stupid question, but *how* do you start this terminal
> to get it running?  For the life of me I can't seem to find the command
> (scratches head and feels ashamed)!

Not that stupid.  Vte is a virtual terminal emulator widget used by
gnome-terminal.  In other words, updating vte affects the terminal
properties of gnome-terminal, so just restart gnome-terminal.

John Thacker
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