dvtm A dynamic virtual terminal manager.
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A dynamic virtual terminal manager. dvtm is a dynamic virtual terminal manager.Installation:Edit config.mk to match your local setup (dvtm is installed into the /usr/local namespace by default).Afterwards enter the following command to build and install dvtm (if necessary as root). If you are building for a system with wide characters (check whether $LANG or the output of "locale" contains UTF-8) then do: make unicode && make installOtherwise a plain: make && make installshould suffice.Running dvtm:Just run dvtm from the console, redirect stderr to a file (just in case something goes wrong you will see it there). dvtm 2> logIf you want to display a one line status bar you can create a named pipe and pass it's name to dvtm via it's -s command line option. Make sure that the pipe remains open until dvtm is closed, see the included dvtm-status script as an example.Configuration:The configuration of dvtm is done by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code. Requirements: · Ncurses What's New in This Release: · compile fix for Mac OS X · optional beep on terminal bell (enable it per window with MOD+B) · the whole screen redraw command which is now by default associated with MOD+r reads the terminal size and adjust the working area accordingly

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