Re: [Fwd: VTE question]

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

> Hi all,

Hi,

> I would like to ask a "special" questions about the VTE widget. I have
> to write an extension for VTE that makes possible to save and restore
> the (all of the visible and non visible) state of the terminal. I've
> almost done but it doesn't seem to work properly. When I restore the
> terminal from a saved state it seems OK. But when I feed the same things
> after the "restoring" as was feeded after the "saving" it doesn't do the
> same. I think there are some flags, structures and things like these
> that are not saved and I don't know exactly what should I save for the
> proper solution.

Without showing us your code how can one help?

> Does anybody know how to save and restore the state of the VTE terminal
> in the proper way? (If there is a proper way)

There is no proper way to do this.  And save/resotre'ing all the state
correctly is not an easy job.  Can't you use 'screen' inside vte?  That
sure allows a lot of stuff to be done that is hard to do in vte.

> Thanks in advance.
>
> MCS
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