I don't find a developer list for gnome-terminal, so I am asking about
at random on this one.
I have been an Eterm user and like its background image features, but
its support for utf8 is slow in coming and so I want to make
gnome-terminal my preferred application. In order to make this dream
come true, I want to hack gnome terminal to
1. Accept a pixmap name from the command line (work is done on that)
2. Accept color shading/masking commands from command line (work
partially done on that)
3. Make background pixmaps resize themselves to automatically fill up
background of terminal when it is resized (I'm totally blocked on this one).
The idea here is that I have about 3000 backgrounds saved in a
directory, and a Perl script that chooses one and then runs the terminal
with a background and shading.
I've got the source code of gnome terminal and vte and I've dug through
here a lot, and the big problem seems to be that the part of the code
that sets the background for a terminal object does not know the size of
the working window. The current approach is to fill up the pixbuf
background with a fixed size and then show portions of that depending on
how big the window is.
I found the background code that makes the tiled version of small
pixmaps when is then put to a buffer and it is in turn scaled to fill up
the background, and I can fiddle that code to make a background fill up
any desired terminal size. However, I can't figure how to make the size
of the image re-adjust when the terminal gets resized.
If you have advice, I would be glad to hear it.
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Paul E. Johnson email: pauljohn@xxxxxx
Dept. of Political Science http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn
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