Terminal emulator for Touch (and Paperwhite?) - Page 4

baf · 01-22-2013, 02:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fvek

Here's a version of kterm 0.2 with this feature added. Only the source is linked because I couldn't get it to cross compile to Kindle, but I don't think it will be incompatible. My changes are marked with "FVEK". There's three areas of additions and one deletion. If your command has options, make sure it's in quotes like: kterm -e "command -o"

Thanks a lot! I will merge your patch and prepare a new package.

Fvek · 01-22-2013, 05:54 PM

Is there a way to pass mouse button events to vte so curses can use them? There would be a bit of a UI conflict with the menu, but that should be tolerable.

Also, you didn't set the colors for bold, dim, cursor, and highlight in set_terminal_colors() so they show up as white on white.

baf · 01-23-2013, 08:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fvek

Is there a way to pass mouse button events to vte so curses can use them? There would be a bit of a UI conflict with the menu, but that should be tolerable.

I would like to implement xterm mouse reporting. I didn't have time to check how to do it in vte.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fvek

Also, you didn't set the colors for bold, dim, cursor, and highlight in set_terminal_colors() so they show up as white on white.

Yes, I noticed that there is some problem with that. I will try to fix it, unless you have a patch

Regarding your last contribution I had to modify it a bit, because I compile for quite old vte (0.24.3). Newer one won't build with ancient versions of libraries on kindle.

baf · 01-23-2013, 08:57 AM

I updated kterm package on my webpage.
It adds features discussed in this thread:

"-e" option for running commands in terminal (thanks to Fvek)
kterm.conf – simple config for initial settings (in kterm/bin)

I think I also got rid of the bug pinned down by aditya3098, which left return key in key-down mode while quitting terminal with "exit" from command line.

knc1 · 01-23-2013, 09:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baf

I updated kterm package on my webpage.
It adds features discussed in this thread:

"-e" option for running commands in terminal (thanks to Fvek)
kterm.conf – simple config for initial settings (in kterm/bin)

I think I also got rid of the bug pinned down by aditya3098, which left return key in key-down mode while quitting terminal with "exit" from command line.

I see that you are providing a gpg signature for the archive -
Thanks a lot for your support by doing that.

PM me your public key - I'll stick it in the mr-keys directory.

Fvek · 01-23-2013, 02:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by baf

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fvek

Also, you didn't set the colors for bold, dim, cursor, and highlight in set_terminal_colors() so they show up as white on white.

Yes, I noticed that there is some problem with that. I will try to fix it, unless you have a patch

Regarding your last contribution I had to modify it a bit, because I compile for quite old vte (0.24.3). Newer one won't build with ancient versions of libraries on kindle.

Here's a patch for the colors. I didn't have anything at hand that uses dim and highlight so those might need changing, but they should at least be viewable now.

On the Kindle, the new version runs commands using the -e option, but if you run it plain it won't open a shell, just a blank screen with a cursor. It works correctly when compiled and run on Ubuntu, although it hangs for a few seconds compared to with -e, so I don't know what's wrong.

baf · 01-23-2013, 03:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fvek

Here's a patch for the colors. I didn't have anything at hand that uses dim and highlight so those might need changing, but they should at least be viewable now.

On the Kindle, the new version runs commands using the -e option, but if you run it plain it won't open a shell, just a blank screen with a cursor. It works correctly when compiled and run on Ubuntu, although it hangs for a few seconds compared to with -e, so I don't know what's wrong.

Thanks for patch! This was quick.

Regarding your problem, on my kindle it runs fine. Sent you a PM.

knc1 · 01-23-2013, 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fvek

Here's a patch for the colors. I didn't have anything at hand that uses dim and highlight so those might need changing, but they should at least be viewable now.

On the Kindle, the new version runs commands using the -e option, but if you run it plain it won't open a shell, just a blank screen with a cursor. It works correctly when compiled and run on Ubuntu, although it hangs for a few seconds compared to with -e, so I don't know what's wrong.

try strace -Ff ... on your Ubuntu build.

Fvek · 01-23-2013, 04:28 PM

I found the problem. I had changed kterm menu.json to run a shell script calling the binary instead just binary because I wanted to add some things to the PATH env var. I put it back to the default way and it works. Although, my way was working with 0.2, so don't know why it stopped.

Maybe we could add/set the PATH via the config file?

knc1 · 01-23-2013, 04:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fvek

I found the problem. I had changed kterm menu.json to run a shell script calling the binary instead just binary because I wanted to add some things to the PATH env var. I put it back to the default way and it works. Although, my way was working with 0.2, so don't know why it stopped.

Maybe we could add/set the PATH via the config file?

Post your shell script that did not work please.
Also post the listing of the ownership and permissions.

Fvek · 01-23-2013, 04:57 PM

Script:

Quote:

#!/bin/sh

EXTENSION=/mnt/us/extensions/kterm
export PATH=$PATH:/mnt/us/bin

${EXTENSION}/bin/kterm -name kterm &

ls -l:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 115 Jan 23 13:55 kterm.sh

UPDATE: it's the "-name kterm" bit that caused it. That was left over from when I originally cp'ed this script from xterm. removed it and it runs as expected.

That bit with EXTENSION is pointless too. Maybe I should pay more attention to what I'm copying

twobob · 01-23-2013, 04:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fvek

I found the problem. I had changed kterm menu.json to run a shell script calling the binary instead just binary because I wanted to add some things to the PATH env var. I put it back to the default way and it works. Although, my way was working with 0.2, so don't know why it stopped.

Maybe we could add/set the PATH via the config file?

I could guess...

Sounds like someone (me) screwed the pooch somehow... on parsing the params...

Could that be it? Launcher at fault?

EDIT: *reads up* ah no.... Not my bad. YAY!!!

knc1 · 01-23-2013, 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fvek

Script:

ls -l:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 115 Jan 23 13:55 kterm.sh

UPDATE: it's the "-name kterm" bit that caused it. That was left over from when I originally cp'ed this script from xterm. removed it and it runs as expected.

That bit with EXTENSION is pointless too. Maybe I should pay more attention to what I'm copying

And maybe you should just execute it rather than run it as a child.

twobob · 01-23-2013, 05:37 PM

You shouldn't need to child process it.

I already do that when it is "launched". (It fires in a tiny wrapper with a & on the end to prevent the kindlet from "hanging")

Fvek · 01-23-2013, 07:59 PM

One more patch, this one adds command line options for all the config options.

01-22-2013, 05:54 PM	#47
Fvek Member Posts: 23 Karma: 193423 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kindle Touch	Is there a way to pass mouse button events to vte so curses can use them? There would be a bit of a UI conflict with the menu, but that should be tolerable. Also, you didn't set the colors for bold, dim, cursor, and highlight in set_terminal_colors() so they show up as white on white. Last edited by Fvek; 01-22-2013 at 06:17 PM.

01-23-2013, 08:57 AM	#49
baf Evangelist Posts: 405 Karma: 2330752 Join Date: May 2012 Device: kt	kterm 0.3 I updated kterm package on my webpage. It adds features discussed in this thread: "-e" option for running commands in terminal (thanks to Fvek) kterm.conf – simple config for initial settings (in kterm/bin) I think I also got rid of the bug pinned down by aditya3098, which left return key in key-down mode while quitting terminal with "exit" from command line. Last edited by baf; 01-23-2013 at 09:02 AM.

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01-23-2013, 04:28 PM	#54
Fvek Member Posts: 23 Karma: 193423 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kindle Touch	I found the problem. I had changed kterm menu.json to run a shell script calling the binary instead just binary because I wanted to add some things to the PATH env var. I put it back to the default way and it works. Although, my way was working with 0.2, so don't know why it stopped. Maybe we could add/set the PATH via the config file?

01-23-2013, 05:37 PM	#59
twobob ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°){ʇlnɐɟ ƃǝs}Týr Posts: 6,586 Karma: 6299993 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: uti gratia usura (Yao ying da ying; Mo ying da yieng) Device: PW-WIFI\|K5-3G+WIFI\| K4\|K3-3G\|DXG\|K2\| Rooted Nook Touch	You shouldn't need to child process it. I already do that when it is "launched". (It fires in a tiny wrapper with a & on the end to prevent the kindlet from "hanging")