This fork of Termite aims to do maintenance on the code base and to that effect it has the following changes over the upstream version:
- Meson is used as build system.
- Instead of depending on vte-ng being
installed on the system, a more modern VTE version with a few needed patches
is built into a static library (as a Meson subproject) and linked into the
termitebinary. - The
TERMenvironment variable is set to the value that VTE provides as default. If it is good enough for every other VTE-based terminal, it should be as well for Termite. - Removed usage of
VTE_CHECK_VERSION(), a recent version of VTE is always built as subproject and there is no need for these checks.
For other notable changes, check the release notes in NEWS file.
Additionally, this fork has the following PRs applied:
- thestinger#779 - Add config option to set VTE word character exceptions
- thestinger#742 - Added a generic name to the termite.desktop
- thestinger#734 - Add LICENSE file
- thestinger#684 - use for spawning vte_terminal_spawn_async
- thestinger#682 - 2 fixes to backwards-word
- thestinger#443 - Vim movement count