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2011/12/28 David Caro Estévez <david.caro.estevez@xxxxxxxxx>

> As far as I know, clicompanion uses vte lib to emulate a terminal, I don't
> know (but it's not likely) if it's possible to launch terminator as another
> process and interact with it.
>
> Personally I love terminator, and I think it will be a great improvement
> for clicompanion to use terminator as terminal emulator.
>
> In fact, terminator already has something similar to clicompanion, is a
> plugin called 'custom commands', that allows you to tag commands and
> execute them from the menu.
>
> Also, just checked the source, and terminator also uses vte, we could
> reuse a lot of code from terminator.
>
> I propose to reuse all the terminator's code (make a wrapper around
> terminator or something similar), so we use terminator instead of using vte
> directly, that will give us a great terminal app inside clicompanion.
>
> This way we will also help improve terminator (finding bugs, or even
> submitting patches and branches).
>
> The plugin approach can also be a good solution, but will constrain the
> code to only those methods allowed by the terminator's plugin api (still
> under development).
>
>
> David
>
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Matthew Byers <faintstlsaint@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Before i go digging into source application i wanted to ask here first.
>> As default of course clic grabs terminal. Is it possible to have it grab
>> the application "terminator" instead of terminal?
>>
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This is great idea!

I think it is possible, and adding some code from terminator will be a good
way.

Thanks!

 Marek Bardoński