Hi, I used to use X11 mostly for using terminal emulators with true-type and antialiased fonts. I decided to give getting rid of X11 another try! The best thing I could find was fbterm which didn't do what I wanted exactly. I decided to change it but it was written in C++. After trying to use it for some time, I finally decided to write my own terminal emulator and hence I wrote fbpad in C.
Fbpad is a small framebuffer virtual terminal that uses libfreetype to render truetype fonts. It manages many terminals through tags. The tag management is intentionally minimal and simple. A tag is represented with a single letter (or digit if you prefer) and each tag has a main and an alt terminal. Something like dwm monocle layout where each tag can hold at most two windows (that was how I used dwm on a laptop screen). If someone prefers tiled windows, he can run dvtm inside fbpad. Here is the key-binding (you can change them by editing fbpad.c): ============== ======================================= key command ============== ======================================= m-c execute a shell m-x switch to tag 'x' m-j switch to alt terminal in this tag m-k like m-j m-p show tag summary m-o jump to last tag m-tab show next terminal c-m-q quit fbpad ============== ======================================= Hope someone finds fbpad useful. Note that the vt102 implementation has some minor bugs (who said writing a bug-free vt102 implementation is easy ;-). Patches to fix them is welcome. You can download snapshots from http://repo.or.cz/w/fbpad.git?a=snapshot;h=HEAD or if you use git you can clone it from git://repo.or.cz/fbpad.git Ali
