hacking the terminal

[Benedikt Meurer]

Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> hi,
> I've done some small cli tools in C (and C++) in the past but I'm new to
> gtk/xfce programming
> I would like to patch the Terminal to enable input broadcasting (send
> user input to all tabs instead of just 1 so a user can work on multiple
> systems at the same time)
> I've gone through the essentials of http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/, but
> since there are no more specific (xfce-oriented) tutorials out there,
> i've been basically reverse-engineering the terminal (starting at main.c
> and going on from there), but now i'm stuck and would like some advice :-)
> 
> So to start with: in the menu, i want to add an item in section
> "Terminal" called "Input broadcasting" (below "reset and clear").
> 
> so first i added this: http://bin.cakephp.org/view/407773536  to
> terminal_preferences_class_init in terminal-preferences.c
> then i added a line to the toggle_action_entries array in terminal-window.c:
>  { "broadcast-input", TERMINAL_STOCK_BROADCAST, N_ ("_Broadcast input"),
> NULL, N_ ("Broadcast input to all tabs"), G_CALLBACK
> (terminal_window_action_input_broadcast), FALSE, }
> 
> and created a dummy function like this:
> http://bin.cakephp.org/view/2051485783
> 
> but now it still doesn't appear, and i'm out of ideas...

Add the action to the Terminal.ui file (see GtkUIManager documentation).

> Dieter

Benedikt