FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for Linux that uses the frame buffer. It is mostly as fast as the Linux kernel's terminal when accelerated scrolling is enabled on the frame buffer device. It allows you to select fonts with fontconfig, auto-detect and convert text encoding with support for double width scripts like Chinese and Japanese etc, dynamically create and destroy up to 10 windows, record scroll-back history for every window, and copy/paste selected text between windows with mouse the when the gpm server is running.
License: GNU General Public License v2
Changes:
Escape and control sequences compatibility with the Linux console was improved, and sequences for changing the color palette and cursor shape are supported. An option to adjust the default cursor shape and flash interval and an option to modify characters considered as part of a word while auto-selecting text were added. A freeze issue caused by changing console winsize under Linux kernel 2.6.26 was fixed. An error was fixed where the screen was not repainted when switching back to a virtual console on which FbTerm is running, but in which FbTerm does not have an active window. Several crash bugs and a buffer overflow were fixed.
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10-12-2008
