Hi! As some of you might know, the debian-installer uses GTK+ on DirectFB as its front-end. We were thinking of adding an integrating terminal window to the graphical installation process.
I have looked at libvte [1] which is part of GNOME libraries and can provide a terminal emulator in the form of a GtkWidget. [1] http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/vte/ This library seems exactly what we need to add this feature to d-i. Unfortunately, it does not work correctly on the DirectFB backend of GTK+. After having hooking the integrated debugging of libvte, I know that the terminal itself fully works: the process is there, I can type commands and the resultings characters are processed by libvte. But I happen to see nothing on the screen except a black empty square. It's probably some incompatibilities between the way libvte displays characters on the screen and the DirectFB backend for GTK+. I would really like to get that issue fixed, but I don't have a clue about the process of debugging such issues. Maybe someone familiar with GTK-DFB could just look at libvte's code and figure out pretty quickly what is going wrong, which could be great. But I would also be dilligent to try to work out what's happening myself, but I won't be able to do so without some tips or pointers on how to do that. :) Thanks a lot for any help. (Please CC: me, I am not subscribed to directfb-dev) Cheers, -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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