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

From: Engin Tola <engin.tola_AT_epfl.ch>
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:55:07 +0100

Engin Tola <engin.tola_AT_epfl.ch> writes:

> it looks quite nice and I'd be happy to use it. However, xterm does not
> refresh the contents of the window when I resize it. I also tried uterm
> and aterm to no avail. this is a problem I have for a while and because
> of this i'm using screen which seems to not have this problem.
>
> anybody has a solution for this ?

actually even within screen when I launch dvtm resizing messes up my screen.

>
> Marc Andre Tanner <mat_AT_brain-dump.org> writes:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marc
>>
>> [1] http://rote.sf.net/
>>
>> --
>> Marc Andre Tanner >< http://www.brain-dump.org/ >< GPG key: CF7D56C0
>>
>
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