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Termite is obsoleted by Alacritty. Termite was a keyboard-centric VTE-based terminal, aimed at use within a window manager with tiling and/or tabbing support.
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Any luck on compiling this on Ubuntu 12.04? #126

Closed esn89 closed 11 years ago

esn89 commented 11 years ago

Has anyone managed to get this working? There are quite a few vtes in there, but no mention of one bigger than 0.34.

I tried vte-common but that didn't seem to cut it.

Xecantur commented 11 years ago

You have to use a patched version of vte. Stock vte(without a patch) simply won't work there are functions exposed with the patch that aren't normally exposed. I can't recall but I am fairly certain that as long as the patch is applied you can use the latest version though I may be wrong (usually I am).

esn89 commented 11 years ago

thanks. i bumped into another problem though, when i clone this, the "util" folder doesn't get included...is there a reason why?

ps: i'll jump through hoops of fire if it means getting this terminal working again.. i moved away from arch because work, and i really miss this terminal.

Xecantur commented 11 years ago

Don't worry about the util folder iirc it doesn't need to be copied and compiled

esn89 commented 11 years ago

i actually have to cuz the terminal i'm using right now, when i run "make" it complains about the util/clamp.hh missing.

Xecantur commented 11 years ago

Oh damn forgot the command when you clone add --recursive-branch I think. Then it should compile

Xecantur commented 11 years ago

From the readme. "git clone --recursive https://github.com/thestinger/termite.git cd termite && make "

esn89 commented 11 years ago

Thank for your help up to now, I have follow the --recursive part and that worked wonders. I think i have all the dependencies met, and I am at the met stage with gcc 4.8.1. This is the error I am getting:

http://pastebin.com/ck2EWLpj

I feel that I am close. I read in the readme that I needed the vte patch is required to fix the functions needed for the keyboard select. Any ideas?

Xecantur commented 11 years ago

Git clone vte I can't recall if apt has a method to fetch source code or not, any how I'm fairly certain the patch is in this repo, then patch thePatch.patch /path/to/vte/src, where thePatch is the file name of the patch.

Xecantur commented 11 years ago

**/path/to/vte/vte.c, apparently you only need a version greater than 0.34 providing there is no major upstream changes.

esn89 commented 11 years ago

Gotcha. So from the top down:

Grab the vte 0.34 from here: http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/gnome/sources/vte/0.34/

Apply the expose_select_text.patch into the folder which contains the vte.c file. And by apply, it just is a simple act of copying right? Because I tried to run it and it didn't work.

Then finally ./configure && make && make install?

thestinger commented 11 years ago

I don't think there is a bug here.

esn89 commented 11 years ago

no but there is a question.

Xecantur commented 11 years ago

Esn89 honestly ask in arch offtopic on IRC

choucavalier commented 10 years ago

has anyone managed to install termite on Ubuntu (i have 14.04)? I tried everything and can't manage to get it working :(

thestinger commented 10 years ago

@toogy: Did you build a patched VTE?

esn89 commented 10 years ago

You need to build a patched VTE.

I would first remove the default libvte that comes installed and hunt down a libvte that's > 0.34

cgag commented 9 years ago

This was helpful to me in getting it building on debian stretch, I'm glad it wasn't asked on IRC, as I'd have likely just given up on using termite. Not sure why you'd want to avoid this kind of thread, but if you do, I'd put a recommended IRC channel (or other means of support) in the readme.

esn89 commented 9 years ago

If you guys like, I could make a wiki page for this project on how to get termite up and running from scratch.

choucavalier commented 9 years ago

@esn89 :+1: go on

cgag commented 9 years ago

That'd be great. The main things I remember were finding the vte source, figuring out how to patch it by copying the patch file to the vte dir and running "patch -p1 -i expose_select_text.patch", and figuring how where to get vapigen (valac). I also needed to install libgirepository1.0-dev, but I can't really remember why, but I don't think it was straight obvious from the configure error message.

edit: I suspect I applied the patch wrong as going into select mode crashes termite, though I didn't get an errors applying the patch and everything compiled.

choucavalier commented 9 years ago

Installing termite on Ubuntu is way too complicated... Can't we do something about it?

thestinger commented 9 years ago

It wouldn't need to patch VTE if upstream exposed the necessary functions for setting the cursor position, setting the text selection, toggling block selection and pausing/unpausing output. It doesn't add a significant amount of new API surface, especially since the coordinates for the cursor and selection are already exposed. They're apparently only interested in doing things that directly benefit GNOME Terminal. That's why this is unnecessary difficult. Take it up with the GNOME developers.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679658

thestinger commented 9 years ago

See the last few comments in that bugzilla thread.

thestinger commented 9 years ago

There's now a fork of VTE, so you can download the tagged release from there and do the usual ./autogen.sh && make to build it.

https://github.com/thestinger/vte-ng

cgag commented 9 years ago

Are they saying they want to implement selection and just provide an api for customizing keybindings? Feels more like an app than a library, maybe I don't fully understand their goals. Thanks for forking, I just compiled against the fork and everything seems to work for me now.

esn89 commented 9 years ago

I think now that thestinger forked the vte and patched it, we don't really need no guide, since most of the problems come from people struggling with vte patching and installation.

thestinger commented 9 years ago

@cgag: Yes, they're saying they won't accept a simple patch exposing the necessary APIs because terminals won't implicitly gain keyboard selection. Instead, they'll only accept a patch somehow implementing this inside VTE. I have no idea how that would be done considering how specific it is to the chosen design (i.e. they're probably not going to want a Vim mode). It also rules out the ability to do things like URL hints.

Anyway, I've had very bad experiences with GNOME so there's no way I'm developing large features for them only to have it be rejected. It's not clear that they're actually willing to merge keyboard selection in any form, only that they're not going to merge it in this form. The vague statement that it should be done in VTE coupled with the refusal to give more details than that is a bad sign. It indicates to me that there's no solution they would be happy with, because they cannot describe what they want.

Corwind commented 9 years ago

I've made a little script to install termite on a fresh Ubuntu installation. It works on my machine, on which I installed Ubuntu 2 hours ago. It should work on any Ubuntu-based distribution but please let me know if there is a problem.

https://github.com/Corwind/termite-install/blob/master/termite-install.sh

ghost commented 9 years ago

@Corwind Thank you for the script, however it didn't work out for me by simply running it. I kept on getting permission errors for some reason, even after running as sudo. The solution was to simply do each step on its own line and waiting a little longer. Worked on my Linux Mint 17.2, 64 bit.

On a side note, I am not getting color the correct colors and don't mean to highjack the thread, but might be related to a dependency? My colors for outputting the files and directories do work on Terminator but don't seem to work on Termite. Little overlap from this other issue No right color

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