VTE Failed to load terminal capabilities from /etc/termcap

killermoehre killermoehre at gmx.net
Wed Oct 8 12:19:45 CEST 2014


Am 08.10.2014 um 09:35 schrieb Gour:
> On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 18:39:51 +0200
> killermoehre <killermoehre at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> > The problem is within libvte and is already fixed in
> > the master branch of it, but there won't be any backporting.
>
> I'm not very familiar with libte(2)/3, so can you, please, explain what
> does it mean 'no backporting' in regard to xfce4?
>
> It will be fixed when new version of libvte is goingto be released or
> it's something with gtk2 vs gtk3?
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour
>
GTK2 can only use libvte2 (0.28.2), GTK3 can only use libvte3 (0.36.3). Since GTK2  doesn't receive any updates anymore, so won't libvte2, so this will not be fixed there. For GTK3 and libvte3 there is hope for support for terminfo as soon as a new release is made. When it's done.


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