VteSelectionFunc ()

gboolean
(*VteSelectionFunc) (VteTerminal *terminal,
                     glong column,
                     glong row,
                     gpointer data);

Specifies the type of a selection function used to check whether a cell has to be selected or not.

vte_terminal_new ()

GtkWidget *
vte_terminal_new (void);

Creates a new terminal widget.

vte_terminal_feed ()

void
vte_terminal_feed (VteTerminal *terminal,
                   const char *data,
                   gssize length);

Interprets data as if it were data received from a child process. This can either be used to drive the terminal without a child process, or just to mess with your users.

vte_terminal_feed_child ()

void
vte_terminal_feed_child (VteTerminal *terminal,
                         const char *text,
                         gssize length);

Sends a block of UTF-8 text to the child as if it were entered by the user at the keyboard.

vte_terminal_feed_child_binary ()

void
vte_terminal_feed_child_binary (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                const guint8 *data,
                                gsize length);

Sends a block of binary data to the child.

vte_terminal_select_all ()

void
vte_terminal_select_all (VteTerminal *terminal);

Selects all text within the terminal (including the scrollback buffer).

vte_terminal_unselect_all ()

void
vte_terminal_unselect_all (VteTerminal *terminal);

Clears the current selection.

vte_terminal_copy_clipboard ()

void
vte_terminal_copy_clipboard (VteTerminal *terminal);

Places the selected text in the terminal in the GDK_SELECTION_CLIPBOARD selection.

vte_terminal_paste_clipboard ()

void
vte_terminal_paste_clipboard (VteTerminal *terminal);

Sends the contents of the GDK_SELECTION_CLIPBOARD selection to the terminal's child. If necessary, the data is converted from UTF-8 to the terminal's current encoding. It's called on paste menu item, or when user presses Shift+Insert.

vte_terminal_copy_primary ()

void
vte_terminal_copy_primary (VteTerminal *terminal);

Places the selected text in the terminal in the GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY selection.

vte_terminal_paste_primary ()

void
vte_terminal_paste_primary (VteTerminal *terminal);

Sends the contents of the GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY selection to the terminal's child. If necessary, the data is converted from UTF-8 to the terminal's current encoding. The terminal will call also paste the GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY selection when the user clicks with the the second mouse button.

vte_terminal_set_size ()

void
vte_terminal_set_size (VteTerminal *terminal,
                       glong columns,
                       glong rows);

Attempts to change the terminal's size in terms of rows and columns. If the attempt succeeds, the widget will resize itself to the proper size.

vte_terminal_set_font_scale ()

void
vte_terminal_set_font_scale (VteTerminal *terminal,
                             gdouble scale);

Sets the terminal's font scale to scale .

vte_terminal_get_font_scale ()

gdouble
vte_terminal_get_font_scale (VteTerminal *terminal);

vte_terminal_set_audible_bell ()

void
vte_terminal_set_audible_bell (VteTerminal *terminal,
                               gboolean is_audible);

Controls whether or not the terminal will beep when the child outputs the "bl" sequence.

vte_terminal_get_audible_bell ()

gboolean
vte_terminal_get_audible_bell (VteTerminal *terminal);

Checks whether or not the terminal will beep when the child outputs the "bl" sequence.

vte_terminal_set_allow_bold ()

void
vte_terminal_set_allow_bold (VteTerminal *terminal,
                             gboolean allow_bold);

Controls whether or not the terminal will attempt to draw bold text, either by using a bold font variant or by repainting text with a different offset.

vte_terminal_get_allow_bold ()

gboolean
vte_terminal_get_allow_bold (VteTerminal *terminal);

Checks whether or not the terminal will attempt to draw bold text by repainting text with a one-pixel offset.

vte_terminal_set_scroll_on_output ()

void
vte_terminal_set_scroll_on_output (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                   gboolean scroll);

Controls whether or not the terminal will forcibly scroll to the bottom of the viewable history when the new data is received from the child.

vte_terminal_set_scroll_on_keystroke ()

void
vte_terminal_set_scroll_on_keystroke (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                      gboolean scroll);

Controls whether or not the terminal will forcibly scroll to the bottom of the viewable history when the user presses a key. Modifier keys do not trigger this behavior.

vte_terminal_set_rewrap_on_resize ()

void
vte_terminal_set_rewrap_on_resize (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                   gboolean rewrap);

Controls whether or not the terminal will rewrap its contents, including the scrollback history, whenever the terminal's width changes.

vte_terminal_get_rewrap_on_resize ()

gboolean
vte_terminal_get_rewrap_on_resize (VteTerminal *terminal);

Checks whether or not the terminal will rewrap its contents upon resize.

vte_terminal_set_color_bold ()

void
vte_terminal_set_color_bold (VteTerminal *terminal,
                             const GdkRGBA *bold);

Sets the color used to draw bold text in the default foreground color. If bold is NULL then the default color is used.

vte_terminal_set_color_foreground ()

void
vte_terminal_set_color_foreground (VteTerminal *terminal);

Sets the foreground color used to draw normal text.

vte_terminal_set_color_background ()

void
vte_terminal_set_color_background (VteTerminal *terminal);

Sets the background color for text which does not have a specific background color assigned. Only has effect when no background image is set and when the terminal is not transparent.

vte_terminal_set_color_cursor ()

void
vte_terminal_set_color_cursor (VteTerminal *terminal,
                               const GdkRGBA *cursor_background);

Sets the background color for text which is under the cursor. If NULL, text under the cursor will be drawn with foreground and background colors reversed.

vte_terminal_set_color_highlight ()

void
vte_terminal_set_color_highlight (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                  const GdkRGBA *highlight_background);

Sets the background color for text which is highlighted. If NULL, it is unset. If neither highlight background nor highlight foreground are set, highlighted text (which is usually highlighted because it is selected) will be drawn with foreground and background colors reversed.

vte_terminal_set_color_highlight_foreground ()

void
vte_terminal_set_color_highlight_foreground
                               (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                const GdkRGBA *highlight_foreground);

Sets the foreground color for text which is highlighted. If NULL, it is unset. If neither highlight background nor highlight foreground are set, highlighted text (which is usually highlighted because it is selected) will be drawn with foreground and background colors reversed.

vte_terminal_set_colors ()

void
vte_terminal_set_colors (VteTerminal *terminal,
                         const GdkRGBA *foreground,
                         const GdkRGBA *background,
                         const GdkRGBA *palette,
                         gsize palette_size);

palette specifies the new values for the 256 palette colors: 8 standard colors, their 8 bright counterparts, 6x6x6 color cube, and 24 grayscale colors. Omitted entries will default to a hardcoded value.

palette_size must be 0, 8, 16, 232 or 256.

If foreground is NULL and palette_size is greater than 0, the new foreground color is taken from palette [7]. If background is NULL and palette_size is greater than 0, the new background color is taken from palette [0].

vte_terminal_set_default_colors ()

void
vte_terminal_set_default_colors (VteTerminal *terminal);

Reset the terminal palette to reasonable compiled-in default color.

vte_terminal_set_cursor_shape ()

void
vte_terminal_set_cursor_shape (VteTerminal *terminal,
                               VteCursorShape shape);

Sets the shape of the cursor drawn.

vte_terminal_get_cursor_shape ()

VteCursorShape
vte_terminal_get_cursor_shape (VteTerminal *terminal);

Returns the currently set cursor shape.

vte_terminal_get_cursor_blink_mode ()

VteCursorBlinkMode
vte_terminal_get_cursor_blink_mode (VteTerminal *terminal);

Returns the currently set cursor blink mode.

vte_terminal_set_cursor_blink_mode ()

void
vte_terminal_set_cursor_blink_mode (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                    VteCursorBlinkMode mode);

Sets whether or not the cursor will blink. Using VTE_CURSOR_BLINK_SYSTEM will use the “gtk-cursor-blink” setting.

vte_terminal_set_scrollback_lines ()

void
vte_terminal_set_scrollback_lines (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                   glong lines);

Sets the length of the scrollback buffer used by the terminal. The size of the scrollback buffer will be set to the larger of this value and the number of visible rows the widget can display, so 0 can safely be used to disable scrollback.

A negative value means "infinite scrollback".

Note that this setting only affects the normal screen buffer. For terminal types which have an alternate screen buffer, no scrollback is allowed on the alternate screen buffer.

vte_terminal_set_font ()

void
vte_terminal_set_font (VteTerminal *terminal,
                       const PangoFontDescription *font_desc);

Sets the font used for rendering all text displayed by the terminal, overriding any fonts set using gtk_widget_modify_font(). The terminal will immediately attempt to load the desired font, retrieve its metrics, and attempt to resize itself to keep the same number of rows and columns. The font scale is applied to the specified font.

vte_terminal_get_font ()

const PangoFontDescription *
vte_terminal_get_font (VteTerminal *terminal);

Queries the terminal for information about the fonts which will be used to draw text in the terminal. The actual font takes the font scale into account, this is not reflected in the return value, the unscaled font is returned.

vte_terminal_get_has_selection ()

gboolean
vte_terminal_get_has_selection (VteTerminal *terminal);

Checks if the terminal currently contains selected text. Note that this is different from determining if the terminal is the owner of any GtkClipboard items.

vte_terminal_set_backspace_binding ()

void
vte_terminal_set_backspace_binding (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                    VteEraseBinding binding);

Modifies the terminal's backspace key binding, which controls what string or control sequence the terminal sends to its child when the user presses the backspace key.

vte_terminal_set_delete_binding ()

void
vte_terminal_set_delete_binding (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                 VteEraseBinding binding);

Modifies the terminal's delete key binding, which controls what string or control sequence the terminal sends to its child when the user presses the delete key.

vte_terminal_set_mouse_autohide ()

void
vte_terminal_set_mouse_autohide (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                 gboolean setting);

Changes the value of the terminal's mouse autohide setting. When autohiding is enabled, the mouse cursor will be hidden when the user presses a key and shown when the user moves the mouse. This setting can be read using vte_terminal_get_mouse_autohide().

vte_terminal_get_mouse_autohide ()

gboolean
vte_terminal_get_mouse_autohide (VteTerminal *terminal);

Determines the value of the terminal's mouse autohide setting. When autohiding is enabled, the mouse cursor will be hidden when the user presses a key and shown when the user moves the mouse. This setting can be changed using vte_terminal_set_mouse_autohide().

vte_terminal_reset ()

void
vte_terminal_reset (VteTerminal *terminal,
                    gboolean clear_tabstops,
                    gboolean clear_history);

Resets as much of the terminal's internal state as possible, discarding any unprocessed input data, resetting character attributes, cursor state, national character set state, status line, terminal modes (insert/delete), selection state, and encoding.

vte_terminal_get_text ()

char *
vte_terminal_get_text (VteTerminal *terminal,
                       VteSelectionFunc is_selected,
                       gpointer user_data);

Extracts a view of the visible part of the terminal. If is_selected is not NULL, characters will only be read if is_selected returns TRUE after being passed the column and row, respectively. A VteCharAttributes structure is added to attributes for each byte added to the returned string detailing the character's position, colors, and other characteristics.

vte_terminal_get_text_include_trailing_spaces ()

char *
vte_terminal_get_text_include_trailing_spaces
                               (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                VteSelectionFunc is_selected,
                                gpointer user_data);

Extracts a view of the visible part of the terminal. If is_selected is not NULL, characters will only be read if is_selected returns TRUE after being passed the column and row, respectively. A VteCharAttributes structure is added to attributes for each byte added to the returned string detailing the character's position, colors, and other characteristics. This function differs from vte_terminal_get_text() in that trailing spaces at the end of lines are included.

vte_terminal_get_text_range ()

char *
vte_terminal_get_text_range (VteTerminal *terminal,
                             glong start_row,
                             glong start_col,
                             glong end_row,
                             glong end_col,
                             VteSelectionFunc is_selected,
                             gpointer user_data);

Extracts a view of the visible part of the terminal. If is_selected is not NULL, characters will only be read if is_selected returns TRUE after being passed the column and row, respectively. A VteCharAttributes structure is added to attributes for each byte added to the returned string detailing the character's position, colors, and other characteristics. The entire scrollback buffer is scanned, so it is possible to read the entire contents of the buffer using this function.

vte_terminal_get_cursor_position ()

void
vte_terminal_get_cursor_position (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                  glong *column,
                                  glong *row);

Reads the location of the insertion cursor and returns it. The row coordinate is absolute.

vte_terminal_match_add_gregex ()

int
vte_terminal_match_add_gregex (VteTerminal *terminal,
                               GRegex *regex,
                               GRegexMatchFlags flags);

Adds the regular expression regex to the list of matching expressions. When the user moves the mouse cursor over a section of displayed text which matches this expression, the text will be highlighted.

vte_terminal_match_remove ()

void
vte_terminal_match_remove (VteTerminal *terminal,
                           int tag);

Removes the regular expression which is associated with the given tag from the list of expressions which the terminal will highlight when the user moves the mouse cursor over matching text.

vte_terminal_match_remove_all ()

void
vte_terminal_match_remove_all (VteTerminal *terminal);

Clears the list of regular expressions the terminal uses to highlight text when the user moves the mouse cursor.

vte_terminal_match_check ()

char *
vte_terminal_match_check (VteTerminal *terminal,
                          glong column,
                          glong row);

Checks if the text in and around the specified position matches any of the regular expressions previously set using vte_terminal_match_add(). If a match exists, the text string is returned and if tag is not NULL, the number associated with the matched regular expression will be stored in tag .

If more than one regular expression has been set with vte_terminal_match_add(), then expressions are checked in the order in which they were added.

vte_terminal_match_check_event ()

char *
vte_terminal_match_check_event (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                GdkEvent *event);

Checks if the text in and around the position of the event matches any of the regular expressions previously set using vte_terminal_match_add(). If a match exists, the text string is returned and if tag is not NULL, the number associated with the matched regular expression will be stored in tag .

If more than one regular expression has been set with vte_terminal_match_add(), then expressions are checked in the order in which they were added.

vte_terminal_match_set_cursor ()

void
vte_terminal_match_set_cursor (VteTerminal *terminal,
                               int tag,
                               GdkCursor *cursor);

Sets which cursor the terminal will use if the pointer is over the pattern specified by tag . The terminal keeps a reference to cursor .

vte_terminal_match_set_cursor_type ()

void
vte_terminal_match_set_cursor_type (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                    int tag,
                                    GdkCursorType cursor_type);

Sets which cursor the terminal will use if the pointer is over the pattern specified by tag .

vte_terminal_match_set_cursor_name ()

void
vte_terminal_match_set_cursor_name (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                    int tag);

Sets which cursor the terminal will use if the pointer is over the pattern specified by tag .

vte_terminal_set_cjk_ambiguous_width ()

void
vte_terminal_set_cjk_ambiguous_width (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                      int width);

This setting controls whether ambiguous-width characters are narrow or wide when using the UTF-8 encoding (vte_terminal_set_encoding()). In all other encodings, the width of ambiguous-width characters is fixed.

vte_terminal_get_cjk_ambiguous_width ()

int
vte_terminal_get_cjk_ambiguous_width (VteTerminal *terminal);

Returns whether ambiguous-width characters are narrow or wide when using the UTF-8 encoding (vte_terminal_set_encoding()).

vte_terminal_set_encoding ()

gboolean
vte_terminal_set_encoding (VteTerminal *terminal,
                           const char *codeset,
                           GError **error);

Changes the encoding the terminal will expect data from the child to be encoded with. For certain terminal types, applications executing in the terminal can change the encoding. If codeset is NULL, it uses "UTF-8".

vte_terminal_get_encoding ()

const char *
vte_terminal_get_encoding (VteTerminal *terminal);

Determines the name of the encoding in which the terminal expects data to be encoded.

vte_terminal_set_word_char_exceptions ()

void
vte_terminal_set_word_char_exceptions (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                       const char *exceptions);

With this function you can provide a set of characters which will be considered parts of a word when doing word-wise selection, in addition to the default which only considers alphanumeric characters part of a word.

The characters in exceptions must be non-alphanumeric, each character must occur only once, and if exceptions contains the character U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, it must be at the start of the string.

Use NULL to reset the set of exception characters to the default.

Since 0.40

vte_terminal_get_word_char_exceptions ()

const char *
vte_terminal_get_word_char_exceptions (VteTerminal *terminal);

Returns the set of characters which will be considered parts of a word when doing word-wise selection, in addition to the default which only considers alphanumeric characters part of a word.

If NULL, a built-in set is used.

Since 0.40

vte_terminal_write_contents_sync ()

gboolean
vte_terminal_write_contents_sync (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                  GOutputStream *stream,
                                  VteWriteFlags flags,
                                  GCancellable *cancellable);

Write contents of the current contents of terminal (including any scrollback history) to stream according to flags .

If cancellable is not NULL, then the operation can be cancelled by triggering the cancellable object from another thread. If the operation was cancelled, the error G_IO_ERROR_CANCELLED will be returned in error .

This is a synchronous operation and will make the widget (and input processing) during the write operation, which may take a long time depending on scrollback history and stream availability for writing.

vte_terminal_search_find_next ()

gboolean
vte_terminal_search_find_next (VteTerminal *terminal);

Searches the next string matching the search regex set with vte_terminal_search_set_gregex().

vte_terminal_search_find_previous ()

gboolean
vte_terminal_search_find_previous (VteTerminal *terminal);

Searches the previous string matching the search regex set with vte_terminal_search_set_gregex().

vte_terminal_search_get_gregex ()

GRegex *
vte_terminal_search_get_gregex (VteTerminal *terminal);

vte_terminal_search_get_wrap_around ()

gboolean
vte_terminal_search_get_wrap_around (VteTerminal *terminal);

vte_terminal_search_set_gregex ()

void
vte_terminal_search_set_gregex (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                GRegex *regex,
                                GRegexMatchFlags flags);

Sets the GRegex regex to search for. Unsets the search regex when passed NULL.

vte_terminal_search_set_wrap_around ()

void
vte_terminal_search_set_wrap_around (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                     gboolean wrap_around);

Sets whether search should wrap around to the beginning of the terminal content when reaching its end.

vte_get_user_shell ()

char *
vte_get_user_shell (void);

Gets the user's shell, or NULL. In the latter case, the system default (usually "/bin/sh") should be used.

vte_terminal_spawn_sync ()

gboolean
vte_terminal_spawn_sync (VteTerminal *terminal,
                         VtePtyFlags pty_flags,
                         const char *working_directory,
                         char **argv,
                         char **envv,
                         GSpawnFlags spawn_flags,
                         GSpawnChildSetupFunc child_setup,
                         gpointer child_setup_data,
                         GPid *child_pid,
                         GCancellable *cancellable);

Starts the specified command under a newly-allocated controlling pseudo-terminal. The argv and envv lists should be NULL-terminated. The "TERM" environment variable is automatically set to a default value, but can be overridden from envv . pty_flags controls logging the session to the specified system log files.

Note that G_SPAWN_DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD will always be added to spawn_flags .

Note that unless spawn_flags contains G_SPAWN_LEAVE_DESCRIPTORS_OPEN, all file descriptors except stdin/stdout/stderr will be closed before calling exec() in the child.

See vte_pty_new(), g_spawn_async() and vte_terminal_watch_child() for more information.

vte_terminal_get_pty ()

VtePty *
vte_terminal_get_pty (VteTerminal *terminal);

Returns the VtePty of terminal .

vte_terminal_set_pty ()

void
vte_terminal_set_pty (VteTerminal *terminal,
                      VtePty *pty);

Sets pty as the PTY to use in terminal . Use NULL to unset the PTY.

vte_terminal_pty_new_sync ()

VtePty *
vte_terminal_pty_new_sync (VteTerminal *terminal,
                           VtePtyFlags flags,
                           GCancellable *cancellable,
                           GError **error);

Creates a new VtePty, and sets the emulation property from “emulation”.

See vte_pty_new() for more information.

vte_terminal_watch_child ()

void
vte_terminal_watch_child (VteTerminal *terminal,
                          GPid child_pid);

Watches child_pid . When the process exists, the “child-exited” signal will be called with the child's exit status.

Prior to calling this function, a VtePty must have been set in terminal using vte_terminal_set_pty(). When the child exits, the terminal's VtePty will be set to NULL.

Note: g_child_watch_add() or g_child_watch_add_full() must not have been called for child_pid , nor a GSource for it been created with g_child_watch_source_new().

Note: when using the g_spawn_async() family of functions, the G_SPAWN_DO_NOT_REAP_CHILD flag MUST have been passed.

vte_terminal_get_geometry_hints ()

void
vte_terminal_get_geometry_hints (VteTerminal *terminal,
                                 GdkGeometry *hints,
                                 int min_rows);

Fills in some hints from terminal 's geometry. The hints filled are those covered by the GDK_HINT_RESIZE_INC, GDK_HINT_MIN_SIZE and GDK_HINT_BASE_SIZE flags.

See gtk_window_set_geometry_hints() for more information.

terminal must be realized (see gtk_widget_get_realized()).

vte_terminal_set_geometry_hints_for_window ()

void
vte_terminal_set_geometry_hints_for_window
                               (VteTerminal *terminal);

Sets terminal as window 's geometry widget. See gtk_window_set_geometry_hints() for more information.

terminal must be realized (see gtk_widget_get_realized()).

vte_terminal_get_char_height ()

glong
vte_terminal_get_char_height (VteTerminal *terminal);

vte_terminal_get_char_width ()

glong
vte_terminal_get_char_width (VteTerminal *terminal);

vte_terminal_get_column_count ()

glong
vte_terminal_get_column_count (VteTerminal *terminal);

vte_terminal_get_icon_title ()

const char *
vte_terminal_get_icon_title (VteTerminal *terminal);

vte_terminal_get_row_count ()

glong
vte_terminal_get_row_count (VteTerminal *terminal);

vte_terminal_get_window_title ()

const char *
vte_terminal_get_window_title (VteTerminal *terminal);

vte_terminal_get_current_directory_uri ()

const char *
vte_terminal_get_current_directory_uri
                               (VteTerminal *terminal);

vte_terminal_get_current_file_uri ()

const char *
vte_terminal_get_current_file_uri (VteTerminal *terminal);

struct VteTerminal

struct VteTerminal;

enum VteCursorBlinkMode

An enumerated type which can be used to indicate the cursor blink mode for the terminal.

enum VteCursorShape

An enumerated type which can be used to indicate what should the terminal draw at the cursor position.

enum VteEraseBinding

An enumerated type which can be used to indicate which string the terminal should send to an application when the user presses the Delete or Backspace keys.

enum VteWriteFlags

A flag type to determine how terminal contents should be written to an output stream.

The “allow-bold” property

  “allow-bold”               gboolean

Controls whether or not the terminal will attempt to draw bold text. This may happen either by using a bold font variant, or by repainting text with a different offset.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE

The “audible-bell” property

  “audible-bell”             gboolean

Controls whether or not the terminal will beep when the child outputs the "bl" sequence.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE

The “backspace-binding” property

  “backspace-binding”        VteEraseBinding

*Controls what string or control sequence the terminal sends to its child when the user presses the backspace key.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: VTE_ERASE_AUTO

The “cjk-ambiguous-width” property

  “cjk-ambiguous-width”      gint

This setting controls whether ambiguous-width characters are narrow or wide when using the UTF-8 encoding (vte_terminal_set_encoding()). In all other encodings, the width of ambiguous-width characters is fixed.

This setting only takes effect the next time the terminal is reset, either via escape sequence or with vte_terminal_reset().

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [1,2]

Default value: 1

The “current-directory-uri” property

  “current-directory-uri”    gchar *

The current directory URI, or NULL if unset.

Flags: Read

Default value: NULL

The “current-file-uri” property

  “current-file-uri”         gchar *

The current file URI, or NULL if unset.

Flags: Read

Default value: NULL

The “cursor-blink-mode” property

  “cursor-blink-mode”        VteCursorBlinkMode

Sets whether or not the cursor will blink. Using VTE_CURSOR_BLINK_SYSTEM will use the “gtk-cursor-blink” setting.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: VTE_CURSOR_BLINK_SYSTEM

The “cursor-shape” property

  “cursor-shape”             VteCursorShape

Controls the shape of the cursor.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: VTE_CURSOR_SHAPE_BLOCK

The “delete-binding” property

  “delete-binding”           VteEraseBinding

Controls what string or control sequence the terminal sends to its child when the user presses the delete key.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: VTE_ERASE_AUTO

The “encoding” property

  “encoding”                 gchar *

Controls the encoding the terminal will expect data from the child to be encoded with. For certain terminal types, applications executing in the terminal can change the encoding. The default is defined by the application's locale settings.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: NULL

The “font-desc” property

  “font-desc”                PangoFontDescription *

Specifies the font used for rendering all text displayed by the terminal, overriding any fonts set using gtk_widget_modify_font(). The terminal will immediately attempt to load the desired font, retrieve its metrics, and attempt to resize itself to keep the same number of rows and columns.

Flags: Read / Write

The “font-scale” property

  “font-scale”               gdouble

The terminal's font scale.

Flags: Read / Write

Allowed values: [0.25,4]

Default value: 1

The “icon-title” property

  “icon-title”               gchar *

The terminal's so-called icon title, or NULL if no icon title has been set.

Flags: Read

Default value: NULL

The “input-enabled” property

  “input-enabled”            gboolean

Controls whether the terminal allows user input. When user input is disabled, key press and mouse button press and motion events are not sent to the terminal's child.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE

The “pointer-autohide” property

  “pointer-autohide”         gboolean

Controls the value of the terminal's mouse autohide setting. When autohiding is enabled, the mouse cursor will be hidden when the user presses a key and shown when the user moves the mouse.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

The “pty” property

  “pty”                      VtePty *

The PTY object for the terminal.

Flags: Read / Write

The “rewrap-on-resize” property

  “rewrap-on-resize”         gboolean

Controls whether or not the terminal will rewrap its contents, including the scrollback buffer, whenever the terminal's width changes.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE

The “scroll-on-keystroke” property

  “scroll-on-keystroke”      gboolean

Controls whether or not the terminal will forcibly scroll to the bottom of the viewable history when the user presses a key. Modifier keys do not trigger this behavior.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: FALSE

The “scroll-on-output” property

  “scroll-on-output”         gboolean

Controls whether or not the terminal will forcibly scroll to the bottom of the viewable history when the new data is received from the child.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: TRUE

The “scrollback-lines” property

  “scrollback-lines”         guint

The length of the scrollback buffer used by the terminal. The size of the scrollback buffer will be set to the larger of this value and the number of visible rows the widget can display, so 0 can safely be used to disable scrollback. Note that this setting only affects the normal screen buffer. For terminal types which have an alternate screen buffer, no scrollback is allowed on the alternate screen buffer.

Flags: Read / Write

Default value: 512

The “window-title” property

  “window-title”             gchar *

The terminal's title.

Flags: Read

Default value: NULL

The “word-char-exceptions” property

  “word-char-exceptions”     gchar *

The set of characters which will be considered parts of a word when doing word-wise selection, in addition to the default which only considers alphanumeric characters part of a word.

If NULL, a built-in set is used.

Flags: Read

Default value: NULL

Since 0.40

The “bell” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

This signal is emitted when the a child sends a bell request to the terminal.

Flags: Run Last

The “char-size-changed” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               guint        width,
               guint        height,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted whenever selection of a new font causes the values of the char_width or char_height fields to change.

Flags: Run Last

The “child-exited” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gint         status,
               gpointer     user_data)

This signal is emitted when the terminal detects that a child watched using vte_terminal_watch_child() has exited.

Flags: Run Last

The “commit” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gchar       *text,
               guint        size,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted whenever the terminal receives input from the user and prepares to send it to the child process. The signal is emitted even when there is no child process.

Flags: Run Last

The “contents-changed” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted whenever the visible appearance of the terminal has changed. Used primarily by VteTerminalAccessible.

Flags: Run Last

The “copy-clipboard” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted whenever vte_terminal_copy_clipboard() is called.

Flags: Action

The “current-directory-uri-changed” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted when the current directory URI is modified.

Flags: Run Last

The “current-file-uri-changed” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted when the current file URI is modified.

Flags: Run Last

The “cursor-moved” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted whenever the cursor moves to a new character cell. Used primarily by VteTerminalAccessible.

Flags: Run Last

The “decrease-font-size” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted when the user hits the '-' key while holding the Control key.

Flags: Run Last

The “deiconify-window” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted at the child application's request.

Flags: Run Last

The “encoding-changed” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted whenever the terminal's current encoding has changed, either as a result of receiving a control sequence which toggled between the local and UTF-8 encodings, or at the parent application's request.

Flags: Run Last

The “eof” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted when the terminal receives an end-of-file from a child which is running in the terminal. This signal is frequently (but not always) emitted with a “child-exited” signal.

Flags: Run Last

The “icon-title-changed” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted when the terminal's icon_title field is modified.

Flags: Run Last

The “iconify-window” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted at the child application's request.

Flags: Run Last

The “increase-font-size” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted when the user hits the '+' key while holding the Control key.

Flags: Run Last

The “lower-window” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted at the child application's request.

Flags: Run Last

The “maximize-window” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted at the child application's request.

Flags: Run Last

The “move-window” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               guint        x,
               guint        y,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted at the child application's request.

Flags: Run Last

The “paste-clipboard” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted whenever vte_terminal_paste_clipboard() is called.

Flags: Action

The “raise-window” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted at the child application's request.

Flags: Run Last

The “refresh-window” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted at the child application's request.

Flags: Run Last

The “resize-window” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               guint        width,
               guint        height,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted at the child application's request.

Flags: Run Last

The “restore-window” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted at the child application's request.

Flags: Run Last

The “selection-changed” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted whenever the contents of terminal's selection changes.

Flags: Run Last

The “text-deleted” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

An internal signal used for communication between the terminal and its accessibility peer. May not be emitted under certain circumstances.

Flags: Run Last

The “text-inserted” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

An internal signal used for communication between the terminal and its accessibility peer. May not be emitted under certain circumstances.

Flags: Run Last

The “text-modified” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

An internal signal used for communication between the terminal and its accessibility peer. May not be emitted under certain circumstances.

Flags: Run Last

The “text-scrolled” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gint         delta,
               gpointer     user_data)

An internal signal used for communication between the terminal and its accessibility peer. May not be emitted under certain circumstances.

Flags: Run Last

The “window-title-changed” signal

void
user_function (VteTerminal *vteterminal,
               gpointer     user_data)

Emitted when the terminal's window_title field is modified.

Flags: Run Last