[Geany-devel] Moving the VTE terminal to the Sidebar

[Matthew Brush]

On 12/15/2010 01:07 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Matthew Brush<matthewbrush at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> It should move the VTE to the sidebar automatically when the plugin is
>> activated in the Plugin Manager, you should see the Terminal tab disappear
>> from the message window at the bottom and a Terminal tab should appear in
>> the sidebar.  It should switch back when the plugin is de-activated.  Of
>>
> I see. I can report an issue then. :) The VTE tab is not automatically
> moved from Messages to Sidebar.
>
>
>> course you need Geany to be supporting the VTE terminal, which can be
>>
> My build features VTE. I use it regularly.
>
>
>> enabled/disabled under the General->Startup tab in the Preferences dialog,
>> the option that says "Load virtual terminal support" (it's default on here).
>>   If you don't have that option, or you don't see a Terminal tab in the Geany
>> Preferences dialog, then your Geany is probably not built/running with VTE
>> support (ex. on Windows I don't think the VTE is supported at all).  If it
>>
> Yes, unfortunately there is no VTE in the Win build. But I'm using
> Xubuntu 10.04.
>
>
>> still doesn't work, let me know because maybe I did something incorrectly in
>> the code.
>>
> Here's what I get:
> 09:59:09: Geany INFO		: Geany 0.20 (svn>= r5478), en_US.UTF-8
> 09:59:09: Geany INFO		: GTK 2.20.1, GLib 2.24.1, GIO
> 09:59:09: Geany INFO		: System data dir: /usr/local/share/geany
> 09:59:09: Geany INFO		: User config dir: /home/liv/.config/geany
> 09:59:10: Geany INFO		: Added filetype Genie (51).
> 09:59:10: Geany INFO		: Loaded:   /usr/local/lib/geany/addons.so (Addons)
> 09:59:10: Geany INFO		: Loaded:   /usr/local/lib/geany/geanylatex.so
> (GeanyLaTeX)
> 09:59:10: Geany INFO		: Loaded:   /usr/local/lib/geany/geanyvc.so (GeanyVC)
> 09:59:10: Geany INFO		: Loaded:   /usr/local/lib/geany/htmlchars.so
> (HTML Characters)
> 09:59:10: Geany INFO		: Loaded:
> /usr/local/lib/geany/geanyinsertnum.so (Insert Numbers)
> [..]
> 09:59:17: Geany INFO		: Plugin "/usr/local/lib/geany/addons.so" already loaded.
> 09:59:17: Geany INFO		: Plugin
> "/usr/local/lib/geany/geanyinsertnum.so" already loaded.
> 09:59:17: Geany INFO		: Plugin "/usr/local/lib/geany/geanylatex.so"
> already loaded.
> 09:59:17: Geany INFO		: Plugin "/usr/local/lib/geany/geanyvc.so" already loaded.
> 09:59:17: Geany INFO		: Plugin "/usr/local/lib/geany/htmlchars.so"
> already loaded.
> Geany does not contain a VTE terminal, bailing out.
Ok, I know why.  It was a problem I somewhat anticipated, see comment on 
line #70 :)
https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-sidebarterm/blob/master/sidebarterm.c#L70

I had made a patch against Geany's vte.c file to overcome this but I did 
not want to require users to patch the source so I came up with another 
way to do it, see comment on line #54
https://github.com/codebrainz/geany-sidebarterm/blob/master/sidebarterm.c#L54

After work I will try and come up with a better solution that still 
doesn't require patching Geany.  If anyone has any suggestions on how to 
get a handle on the vte frame widget from a plugin that would be great, 
the comments in and around the get_vte_frame() function explain my 
difficulties.
> 09:59:25: Geany INFO		: Loaded:   /usr/local/lib/geany/sidebarterm.so
> (Sidebar Terminal)
>
> For some reason the plug-in does not recognize my vte. Using libvte
> 1:0.23.5-0ubuntu1.1.
>
>
>>> I cannot find this pref (although it should probably be located in
>>> 'Edit>    Plugins Prefs' dialogue). Any suggestions?
>> The preferences I was talking about there are only if you applied the
>> "geany_vte.patch" to the Geany source and re-built it, however I don't
>> necessarily recommend doing that as the patch is not tested, nor is it
>> completely working.
>>
>> There are no preferences for the plugin, it just works as described above
>> (by activating/de-activating the plugin).
>>
> I didn't apply the patch, so this is expected. Regards
> Liviu
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Thanks
Matthew Brush (codebrainz)