NAME

Gnome2::Vte - Perl interface to the Virtual Terminal Emulation library

SYNOPSIS

  use strict;
  use Glib qw(TRUE FALSE);
  use Gtk2 -init;
  use Gnome2::Vte;

  # create things
  my $window = Gtk2::Window->new;
  my $scrollbar = Gtk2::VScrollbar->new;
  my $hbox = Gtk2::HBox->new;
  my $terminal = Gnome2::Vte::Terminal->new;

  # set up scrolling
  $scrollbar->set_adjustment ($terminal->get_adjustment);

  # lay 'em out
  $window->add ($hbox);
  $hbox->pack_start ($terminal, TRUE, TRUE, 0);
  $hbox->pack_start ($scrollbar, FALSE, FALSE, 0);
  $window->show_all;

  # hook 'em up
  $terminal->fork_command ('/bin/bash', ['bash', '-login'], undef,
                           '/tmp', FALSE, FALSE, FALSE);
  $terminal->signal_connect (child_exited => sub { Gtk2->main_quit });
  $window->signal_connect (delete_event =>
                           sub { Gtk2->main_quit; FALSE });

  # turn 'em loose
  Gtk2->main;

ABSTRACT

This module allows a Perl developer to use the Virtual Terminal Emulator library (libvte for short).

SEE ALSO

Gnome2::Vte::index(3pm), Gtk2(3pm), Gtk2::api(3pm) and http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/vte/.

AUTHOR

Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch at gmx dot de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2003-2006 by the gtk2-perl team