[vox-tech] Xterm and terminal types

[Rod Roark]

On Sunday 12 December 2004 10:51 am, Ken Bloom wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 08:46:42 -0800
> Rod Roark <rod at sunsetsystems.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday 11 December 2004 06:13 pm, Ken Bloom wrote:
> > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/vte/vteterminal.html
> > > 
> > > look at vte_terminal_set_emulation()
> > > 
> > > You may need to add this line to the appropriate place in Gnome
> > > Terminal, but I don't know what it is.
> > > 
> > > As always, reply when you've tried it so that the googlers can find
> > > out whether it worked.
> > 
> > Thanks Ken.  It will be a few days before I can try anything,
> > but it appears I can build VTE with the configure option
> > "--with-default-emulation=scoansi".  Perhaps that would be
> > sufficient, since grepping the gnome-terminal source for
> > "vte_terminal_set_emulation" yields no matches.
> 
> I haven't gotten this to work (ls spits out random junk, clear 
> complains that it doesn't know what an scoansi termianl is, vim 
> looks strange, and also complains that it doesn't know what an 
> scoansi is), but is it possible you want code like this?   

Yeah I think so.  The idea is to bring up the terminal app
and then immediately telnet or ssh into the sco box.  Then
the sco apps will spit out scoansi doodoo and the hacked-up
gnome-terminal will hopefully understand it.

So assuming you are not connecting to an sco machine, what
you are describing is exactly what I'd expect.

> Note that you'll want to install the appropriate package 
> containing a termcap file. Debian doesn't install one unless 
> something depends on it.  

Probably I'll install Fedora Core 3 which does install a
/etc/termcap with scoansi stuff included.  I assume that is
what you mean?

> --- gnome-terminal-orig/src/terminal-screen.c 2004-12-12 10:24:57.000000000 -0800
> +++ gnome-terminal-2.8.0/src/terminal-screen.c  2004-12-12 10:43:49.000000000 -0800
> @@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@
>  
>    retval[i] = g_strdup ("COLORTERM="EXECUTABLE_NAME);
>    ++i;
> -  retval[i] = g_strdup ("TERM=xterm"); /* FIXME configurable later? */
> +  retval[i] = g_strdup ("TERM=scoansi"); /* FIXME configurable later? */
>    ++i;
>    retval[i] = g_strdup_printf ("WINDOWID=%ld",
>                                 GDK_WINDOW_XWINDOW (term->window));
> diff -uNr gnome-terminal-orig/src/terminal-widget-vte.c gnome-terminal-2.8.0/src/terminal-widget-vte.c
> --- gnome-terminal-orig/src/terminal-widget-vte.c 2004-12-12 10:24:57.000000000 -0800
> +++ gnome-terminal-2.8.0/src/terminal-widget-vte.c      2004-12-12 10:43:49.000000000 -0800
> @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@
>    terminal = vte_terminal_new ();
>  
>    vte_terminal_set_mouse_autohide(VTE_TERMINAL(terminal), TRUE);
> +  vte_terminal_set_emulation(VTE_TERMINAL(terminal), "scoansi");
>    
>    data = g_new0 (VteData, 1);

Are these patches that you applied, or did they come from
"./configure --with-default-emulation=scoansi"?

-- Rod