Fedora 10 Update: fbterm-1.5-1.fc10
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Tue Jun 30 21:28:03 UTC 2009
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2009-4991
2009-05-15 22:45:04
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Name : fbterm
Product : Fedora 10
Version : 1.5
Release : 1.fc10
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:
- Upstream update: 1. added support for text rendering with backround image
2. added command-line arguments to customize command executed in sub-window
3. added Alt-Fn and all FbTerm's shortcuts support when input method is actived
4. added option "-v/--verbose" to show some useful information 5. fixed some
text color issues with version 1.4 6. fixed encoding selection error when
locale is C/POSIX 7. fixed a bug where screen is cleared on startup even in
inactive tty 8. fixed a bug where variable HOME is not defined -
rpmpack.patch is to allow rpm buildable for non-root account.
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ChangeLog:
* Fri May 15 2009 Ding-Yi Chen <dchen at redhat dot com> - 1.5-1
- Upstream update:
1. added support for text rendering with backround image
2. added command-line arguments to customize command executed in sub-window
3. added Alt-Fn and all FbTerm's shortcuts support when input method is actived
4. added option "-v/--verbose" to show some useful information
5. fixed some text color issues with version 1.4
6. fixed encoding selection error when locale is C/POSIX
7. fixed a bug where screen is cleared on startup even in inactive tty
8. fixed a bug where variable HOME is not defined
- rpmpack.patch is to allow rpm buildable for non-root account.
* Mon Mar 23 2009 Ding-Yi Chen <dchen at redhat dot com> - 1.4-1
- Upstream update:
1. improved text rendering performence
2. added private escape sequences for 256 color mode support
3. added a option "font-width" to adjust character cell width
4. added support for older 2.2/2.4 kernel
5. fixed a crash bug with bitmap fonts
6. fixed a configure failure in cross-compiling environment
- Note: iminput.patch is applied.
* Tue Feb 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.3-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_11_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jan 6 2009 Ding-Yi Chen <dchen at redhat dot com> - 1.3-1
- SUID fbterm for el5, as it does not have libcap.
* Mon Jan 5 2009 Ding-Yi Chen <dchen at redhat dot com> - 1.3-0
- Upstream update:
1. added command line arguments to change option values
2. added client-server based input method framework
3. added screen rotation support
4. added support for visual type DIRECTCOLOR used by ATI cards
(thanks for Witek's patch)
5. fixed a bug that user can't input some unicode characters
6. fixed a bug of maybe not restore original console state after
FbTerm exited
7. fixed several trivial bugs
8. added using filesystem capability attributes offered by kernel
2.6.27, instead of setting set-user-ID bit on FbTerm
9. decreased memory usage of every shell instance by changing size
of the struct saving every charater's attribute from 4 to 2 bytes
* Thu Dec 11 2008 Ding-Yi Chen <dchen at redhat dot com> - 1.2-2
- Summary simplified.
* Fri Nov 21 2008 Ding-Yi Chen <dchen at redhat dot com> - 1.2-2
- Upstream update, see
http://code.google.com/p/fbterm/
for details.
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. 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 Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
http://fedoraproject.org/keys
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