> What's the handiest way for me to get a terminal to test with? > The simplest/quickest:
Get VTE from tarball: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/vte/ or git clone git://git.gnome.org/vte Compile the usual autoconf way (./configure or ./autogen.sh; make). Feel free to pass --enable-vala=no or --disable-vala or something like this if you're having trouble with vala. Start as ./src/testvte -- You'll get the underlining experience, plus the URL printed to stderr on right-click. The full featured (with the usual gnome-terminal UI and Ctrl+click opening the link in browser): Carefully choose --libdir for VTE, compile and install (make install). Then repeat the same with gnome-terminal (taking care of --prefix and --libexecdir), making sure pkgconfig finds the new VTE. (I personally just install both packages to the location of the distro's package, overwriting those files. In case of unexpected unlikely trouble, the worst case I open an xterm and reinstall the distro packages from there. Otherwise it's just too much pain always pointing to the test version.) Then quit all gnome-terminal windows at once and restart it (or start the server and client with a different app-id as shown at https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Terminal/Debugging (without the gdb bits)). e.
