Sellerie: A GTK+ serial port terminal

Based on GTKTerm
Original code © Julien Schmitt http://www.jls-info.com/julien/linux
Improvements by Zach Davis https://fedorahosted.org/gtkterm/

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Command line options

--help or -h : this help screen
--config <configuration> or -c : load configuration
--port <device> or -p : serial port device (default /dev/ttyS0)
--speed <speed> or -s : serial port speed (default 9600)
--bits <bits> or -b : number of bits (default 8)
--stopbits <stopbits> or -t : number of stopbits (default 1)
--parity <odd | even> or -a : parity (default none)
--flow <Xon | CTS> or -w : flow control (default none)
--delay <ms> or -d : end of line delay in ms (default none)
--char <char> or -r : wait for a special char at end of line (default none)
--file <filename> or -f : default file to send (default none)
--echo or -e : switch on local echo

Keyboard shortcuts

As Sellerie is often used like a terminal emulator, the shortcut keys are assigned to <ctrl><shift>, rather than just <ctrl>. This allows the user to send keystrokes of the form <ctrl>X and not have Sellerie intercept them.

<ctrl><shift>L -- Clear screen
<ctrl><shift>R -- Send file
<ctrl><shift>Q -- Quit
<ctrl><shift>S -- Configure port
<ctrl><shift>V -- Paste
<ctrl><shift>C -- Copy
<ctrl>B -- Send break

NOTES on RS485:

The RS485 flow control is a software user-space emulation and therefore may not work for all configurations (won't respond quickly enough). If this is the case for your setup, you will need to either use a dedicated RS232 to RS485 converter, or look for a kernel level driver. This is an inherent limitation to user space programs.

Building:

Sellerie has a few dependencies:

Gtk+4 (version 4.4 or higher)
vte 2.91-gtk4 (version 0.69 or higher, if not available will be pulled in through meson submodule)

Once these dependencies are installed, most people should simply run:

meson build
ninja -C build

And to install:

ninja -C build install

If you wish to install Sellerie someplace other than the default directory, use:

meson build -Dprefix=/install/directory

for an unconfigured build or

meson config build -Dprefix=/install/directory

for an already existing build.

Then build and install as usual.

phako / Sellerie