Fedora 11 Update: fbterm-1.6-3.fc11

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-2929
2010-02-26 02:24:52
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Name        : fbterm
Product     : Fedora 11
Version     : 1.6
Release     : 3.fc11
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 frame-buffer device
- select font with fontconfig and draw text with freetype2, same as
  Qt/Gtk+ based GUI apps
- dynamically create/destroy up to 10 windows initially running default
  shell
- record scroll back 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:

- Resolves: #565710    Add udevrules sub package for installing udev rules for
granting regular user access.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Feb 24 2010 Ding-Yi Chen <dchen at redhat dot com> - 1.6-3
- Resolves: #565710
  Add udevrules sub package for installing udev rules for granting regular user access.
* Mon Nov 30 2009 Ding-Yi Chen <dchen at redhat dot com> - 1.6-1
- 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
* Fri Jul 24 2009 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng at lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.5-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_12_Mass_Rebuild
* 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.
- Add BuildRequires automake, autoconf to "refresh" src/Makefile,
  otherwise, the above patch is not effective for a weird reason.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #565710 - %{_bindir}/fbterm is not working for normal users unless a setcap is done.
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=565710
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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/.

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