-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-0084 2009-01-07 06:44:58 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : fbterm Product : Fedora 10 Version : 1.3 Release : 1.fc10 URL : http://code.google.com/p/fbterm/ Summary : A frame buffer terminal emulator Description : FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for linux with frame buffer device. Features include: - mostly as fast as terminal of linux kernel while accelerated scrolling is enabled on framebuffer device - select font with fontconfig and draw text with freetype2, same as Qt/Gtk+ based GUI apps - dynamicly create/destroy up to 10 windows initially running default shell - record scrollback history for every window - auto-detect text encoding with current locale, support double width scripts like Chinese, Japanese etc - switch between configurable additional text encodings with hot keys on the fly - copy/past selected text between windows with mouse when gpm server is running -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: - SUID fbterm for el5, as it does not have libcap. This update is for EPEL 5 user, not mandatory for Fedora user. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Tue Jan 6 2009 Ding-Yi Chen <dchen at redhat dot com> - 1.3-1 - SUID fbterm for el5, as it does not have libcap. * Mon Jan 5 2009 Ding-Yi Chen <dchen at redhat dot com> - 1.3-0 - Upstream update: 1. added command line arguments to change option values 2. added client-server based input method framework 3. added screen rotation support 4. added support for visual type DIRECTCOLOR used by ATI cards (thanks for Witek's patch) 5. fixed a bug that user can't input some unicode characters 6. fixed a bug of maybe not restore original console state after FbTerm exited 7. fixed several trivial bugs 8. added using filesystem capability attributes offered by kernel 2.6.27, instead of setting set-user-ID bit on FbTerm 9. decreased memory usage of every shell instance by changing size of the struct saving every charater's attribute from 4 to 2 bytes * Thu Dec 11 2008 Ding-Yi Chen <dchen at redhat dot com> - 1.2-2 - Summary simplified. * Fri Nov 21 2008 Ding-Yi Chen <dchen at redhat dot com> - 1.2-2 - Upstream update, see http://code.google.com/p/fbterm/ for details. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update fbterm' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at http://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Fedora-package-announce mailing list Fedora-package-announce@redhat.com http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-package-announce
