JFBTERM/ME

JFBTERM/ME takes advantages of framebuffer device that is supported since linux kernel 2.2.x (at least on ix86 architecture) and make it enable to display multilingual text on console. Is is developed on ix86 architecture, and it will works on other architectures such as linux/pcpc.

Features

• It works with framebuffer device instead of VGA.
• It supports pcf format font
• It is not so fast because it doesn't take any advantages of accelaration.
• It also support coding systems other than ISO-2022, such as SHIFT-JIS by using iconv(3).
• It is userland program.

NEWS

2003/09/15 jfbterm-0.4.3 released

2003/09/14 jfbterm-0.4.2 released

2003/09/04: jfbterm-0.4.1 released

Supported Framebuffer

vga16fb

1bpp

2bpp

8bpp PACKED-PIXELS PSEUDOCOLOR

15bpp PACKED-PIXELS TRUECOLOR

16bpp PACKED-PIXELS TRUECOLOR

24bpp PACKED-PIXELS TRUECOLOR

32bpp PACKED-PIXELS TRUECOLOR

Install

How to install

 $ ./configure
 $ make
 $ su
 # make install
 # exit

Configuration file and fonts

${sysconfdir}/jfbterm.conf.sample is installed, so you can edit it and save as ${sysconfdir}/jfbterm.conf.
If you didn't specify any parameter to ./configure, it will be /usr/local/etc/jfbterm.conf.sample. If you want to have /etc/jfbterm.conf, do

 ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc

termcap, terminfo

terminal name is "jfbterm". Use terminfo.jfbterm as terminfo.

Customize

./configure --help

Run

$ ./jfbterm

Download

Source

It is not bug..

Bug

ToDo

Support DIRECTCOLOR framebuffers

Support Mouse.

Support BEEP.

Support rotate.

MailingList

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