Bugzilla – Bug 1212948
Remove fbiterm
Last modified: 2024-05-10 15:16:20 UTC
Fbiterm is a terminal on top of /dev/fb*. The install system uses the software for non-ascii output. Information for package fbiterm: -------------------------------- Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss Name : fbiterm Version : 0.5.20040304-301.10 Arch : x86_64 Vendor : openSUSE Installed Size : 805.6 KiB Installed : No Status : not installed Source package : xiterm-0.5.20040304-301.10.src Summary : Internationalized Terminal Emulator for Framebuffers Description : An internationalized terminal emulator for framebuffers. Replace fbiterm with a DRM-based solution. At a minimum, change fbiterm to work with DRM instead of fbdev.
mlterm-sdl2 should be a direct replacement.
(In reply to Michal Suchanek from comment #1) > mlterm-sdl2 should be a direct replacement. Is it? Why do you think so?
(In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #2) > (In reply to Michal Suchanek from comment #1) > > mlterm-sdl2 should be a direct replacement. > > Is it? Why do you think so? Is it not? Why do you think so?
I couldn't find much information about mlterm-sdl2, just that it uses SDL2 as backend (for rendering?). So there is hope it can also directly run on KMS instead of framebuffer (if we enable KMS support for SDL2). I couldn't find useful information about support for CJK fonts, the reason we used fbiterm in the past on the console.
AFAICT it does run on KMS, and one of the point of having multi-language terminal is to be able to read not only one language, but all of them.
Of course it needs to support UTF-8.
(In reply to Stefan Dirsch from comment #6) > Of course it needs to support UTF-8. What is that supposed to add here?
Or in other words you are basically saying: I haven't looked at this thing at all, surely it wouldn't work. My point is if you are going to claim it would not work at least look at it and describe an actual problem it has.
No, I haven't looked at it. But if you did and tested in chinese, korean and japanese on KMS and things are working, wonderful! Let's switch to it ...
It does display something, and since displaying complex scripts is the primary purpose of the application I would be quite surprised if it did not. I can't tell traditional Chinese from simplified so I can't say much more about the result other than something is displayed.
Thanks. Sounds good!
Fbiterm is dead. Let's remove it.
There's a bug report dedicated to removing fbiterm. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1224053 ***