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[Matthew Byers <faintstlsaint@xxxxxxxxx>]

NOTE: This should be implemented in 1.2! Right now we should still be
focusing on releasing 1.1.

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 4:22 PM, bdfhjk <bdfhjk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> 2011/12/28 David Caro Estévez <david.caro.estevez@xxxxxxxxx>
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Also, just checked the source, and terminator also uses vte, we could
>> reuse a lot of code from terminator.
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>> 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).
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>> 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).
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>> David
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>> On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Matthew Byers <faintstlsaint@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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>>> 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!
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> I think it is possible, and adding some code from terminator will be a
> good way.
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> Thanks!
>
>  Marek Bardoński
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