Re: [dwm] [ANNOUNCE] dvtm - dynamic virtual terminal manager - aka dwm for the console

Hi!

I like the idea, but librote lacks terminal resizing. There's no
proper library for terminal emulation now. I think we should start a
project to implement vt100 in a library in a suckless way. What do you
think about this idea?

2007/12/8, Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz_AT_gmail.com>:
> On Dec 8, 2007 1:29 PM, Marc Andre Tanner <mat_AT_brain-dump.org> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > For some time i have been thinking about applying the concept of
> > tiling window management to the console. As a result i have
> > written dvtm, you can check it out here:
> >
> > http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dvtm/
> >
> > dvtm is highly inspired by dwm and reuses some of it's code, so
> > dwm users will probably be familiar with it. dvtm depends on
> > libncurses and a patched version of librote[1] which handles the
> > terminal emulation stuff. Install instruction can be found on the
> > website mentioned above.
> >
> > dvtm comes with 3 standard layouts (tile,bstack,grid). In contrast
> > to dwm it currently doesn't have a status bar and therefore doesn't
> > read from stdin, it also has no support for tagging this may or may
> > not change in the future.
> >
> > Note that dvtm is in early development so there are still bugs in
> > both dvtm and the underlying terminal emulation library.
> > Feel free to fix them and send me a patch.
> >
> > Comments and suggestions are always welcome.
>
> I didn't try it out yet but it looks useful. Thanks.
>
> As it is probably not meant to be used within
> screen I'd like to ask whether it would work
> with dtach. Does it?
>
>

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