Re: using terminal

[Azrael <azrael azrael-uk f2s com>]

On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 16:40, horrorvacui gmx net wrote:
> On 04 Dec 2002 12:00:15 +0000
> Rui Homem <m3moh gmx net> wrote:
> > My question is:
> > i need a terminal widget, i tried to use zvtterm but i got to many
> > trouble for me to solve, so i search for another solution and i found
> > vte. Can some one tell me how to work with vte (may be sending me some
> > code for me to study it), is there a better solution, where should i
> > look for information.
>
> I failed with zvtterm too, choosing vte instead seems to be a wise thing
> to do (zvtterm is deprecated anyway). Download vte:
>
>  ftp://ftp.unina.it/pub/linux/GNOME/sources/vte/0.10/vte-0.10.1.tar.bz2
> untar and install it - I like installing those things to usr, using the
> configure-option:
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
>
> I haven't got very far with using it, the only snippet of code I've got is
> just a primitive creation of the widget and forking of the shell (don't
> forget to #include <vte/vte.h>):
>
>
>  ZvtTerminal *term;

This is something confusing me?
Why ZvtTerminal when using the vte widget instead of the zvt widget?
should this not be VteTerminal *term; ?

>       box=gtk_vbox_new(FALSE, 3);
>       term=vte_terminal_new();
>       vte_terminal_fork_command(term,
>                               NULL, NULL,
>                               NULL, NULL,
>                               FALSE,
>                               TRUE,
>                               TRUE);
>       gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX (box), term, TRUE, TRUE, 10);
>       gtk_widget_show(term);
>       gtk_widget_show(box);
>
> ...and then you can put the box in a toplevel window, remember to pass gcc
> -L/usr/lib -lvte, compile the thing, and hope it works. It does here, but

Can anyone tell me how to get a gui created in glade-2 to pass along
that line?

many thanks

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