Re: Termite's terminfo

[IFo Hancroft]

They do still us their own fork of VTE which they modify to expose a 
couple of features but they keep it updated to upstream.

Although looking at the links you provided earlier, VTE may in-fact 
expose those functions soon, which will make Termite just use upstream 
VTE. I am on Manjaro so I am not sure how much this helps but I install 
termite from their regular repo it seems (even though executing pamac 
info termite and pamac info vte-common tells me they are from AUR) 
0.56.3-1 and vte3 which I believe is regular upstream VTE is also 
0.56.3-1, also the vte-ng for termite in AUR is 0.56.2.a-1

On 10/7/19 11:39 AM, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 07:47:45AM +0300, IFo Hancroft wrote:
> > I have just checked the branches and versions.
> > Termite does use a recent VTE version (I believe it is even up to date with
> > VTE's current development version, not just the latest stable), though VTE's
> > versions are confusing (at least for me) with being called VTE3, while being
> > named and installed as VTE 2.91 while the version is actually 0.48.3
> > according to https://developer.gnome.org/vte/
>
> I haven't looked for a few months, but as I recall, termite used/uses
> an older release of VTE which had some differences added by the termite
> developers (who weren't making progress on getting VTE's developer to
> incorporate those changes).
>
> When I tested the termite terminal description, I found that there was
> a package in Arch Linux which I could use, which required replacing the
> newer version of VTE with the other.
>
> I did that with a virtual machine, so I could reopen that investigation
> (making a snapshot, install/test, revert, etc).  Takes time.
>   
> This doesn't mention that - so retesting seems more straightforward:
>
> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/termite/
> https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/termite&id=3cb1a3f4d85c668e025b996e599fd7ec83a09166
>
> but VTE's version numbering (and what packagers do with it) isn't
> straightforward.  Perhaps sometime VTE's developer will get around
> to writing some documentation.
>
> > Anyway, my point is, Termite's terminfo can get updated to just:
> > termite|VTE-based terminal,
> > use=vte,
>
> it's on my to-do list