ROXTerm
Author: Adrian Sampson
Description: ROXTerm, a full-featured VTE terminal emulator

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# News

2014-07-31 Version 2.9.1

- Supports launching of SSH sessions from matched URIs or hostnames, while common VCS URIs are matched for copying to the clipboard.
- Allows Shortcuts profiles to be edited as text for GTK+ 3.10 and newer.
- Fixed background transparency support for recent versions of VTE/GTK (compositing window manager required?).

2014-01-16 Version 2.8.1

- Terminal background options are disabled when using a recent version of VTE which deprecates them.

2013-03-29 Version 2.7.1

- Translations are now enabled.
- SF project has been upgraded with new git repository.
- New behaviour for -e (see man page).
- Several new features and bug-fixes.

2012-02-24 Version 2.5.1

- Debian packaging now managed by git-buildpackage.
- Removed autoconf support.
- Improved close window/tab warning options.
- Implemented dark theme option.
- --tab only reuses windows on current workspace.
- Generated graphics are included in tarballs.
- Ubuntu PPA moved to https://launchpad.net/~h-realh/+archive/roxterm

2011-11-24 Version 2.3.1

- New bespoke build system, maitch.

2011-08-21 Version 2.0.1

- Uses GTK+3 by default, GTK+2 support still available.
- Added search functionality.
- Added support for file URIs.
- Much improved tab bar.
- Uses GtkBuilder instead of libglade.

2011-06-02 Version 1.22.1

- Improved compositing support.
- Added --role option.
- --xclass and --xname options removed. --name and/or --class are alternatives but should be used in conjunction with --separate. Use --role if you need a per-window identifier.
- Tries to avoid creating redundant session state files. Consider running 'rm ~/.config/roxterm.sourceforge.net/Sessions/*' to clean up the stale files created before this version.

2011-02-12 Version 1.21.1

- Support TERM setting with vte >= 0.26.
- Command line options to set window class hints.
- Window title can be configured in profiles.

2010-11-17 Version 1.20.0

- Improved terminal geometry management.
- Changes to tab/window title handling.

2010-09-21 Version 1.19.1

- New website design by Cameron Sampson.
- Spanish translation by Félix Medrano Sanz.
- Switched from subversion (svn) to git for VCS.
- Rewritten code for multiple tab management.

2010-03-23 Version 1.18.1

- Supports X session management.
- Rudimentary ssh support.
- Profile editor redesign, including new fullscreen & maximise options.
- New menu items to open a terminal with a specific profile.
- Ability to restart a command.
- Always show tabs is on by default and single tabs only take up as much space as they need.

2008-09-13 Version 1.13.0

- Options to warn before closing windows
- Use -T instead of -t to set title (for x-terminal-emulator)
- New --tab option
- Man pages are in main distribution instead of Debian only

2008-05-20 Version 1.12.0

- i18n support
- Fixed command line parsing
- "Hidden" tabs option
- --title option

2008-03-27 Version 1.11.0

- Fixed and improved colour scheme dialog
- Terminal title bar string can be customised

2007-12-31 Version 1.9.0

- Enhanced tab options (mostly thanks to Sven Schnelle)

2007-09-11 Version 1.7.0

- Added zoom and fullscreen facilities
- New windows/tabs have same cwd as the terminal they're opened from
- Official Debian packages are available for 1.5.2 onwards instead of my unofficial ones
- CLI options have changed

2007-08-22 Version 1.6.0

- Removed extraneous Debian packages
- Many messages are now shown in dialog boxes instead of logged to console
- Added option to wrap around when switching tabs

2007-03-23 Version 1.5.1

- Debianised

2006-07-05 Version 1.2.0

- Encodings are a separate family of settings instead of being part of a profile

2006-06-20 Version 1.1.0

- Much improved drag & drop support
- roxterm-capplet renamed to roxterm-config
- Runs all terminals in a single process by default

2006-05-30 Version 1.0.3

- Terminal window and capplet background image widget are now drag & drop destinations.

2006-04-29

- First full release.

2006-02-27

- CVS discontinued. Use subversion (svn) fron now on.

2006-02-27 Version 0.11.0

- Migration to keyfile options done! Make sure you read README if you were using an older version.

2006-02-26 Version 0.10.14

- Everything now apparently complete and working except for docs. Going to use keyfiles instead of XML before release.

2006-02-25 Version 0.10.11

- Nearly everything now works (or seems to!) save for roxterm taking appropriate action when a shortcut scheme is renamed or deleted.

2005-07-07 Version 0.9.7

- The profile editor dialogue is just about complete, including keyboard shortcuts, but not yet tooltips (tomorrow)

2005-06-05

- Added functional background tab to profile editor.
- Can't be bothered to maintain a fully detailed changelog any more. Nobody could possibly be that interested, and if they were they could use CVS anyway. This will probably have a knock-on effect on NEWS and make it confined to full releases and stuff not directly related to code changes.

2005-04-06

- Now installs correctly when not using ROX

2005-04-06

- Terminal can now launch capplet to edit current profile

2005-04-05

- Tidied up build system

2005-04-04

- Matches email addresses and launches mailer

2005-04-02

- A working, but incomplete capplet, using dbus 0.22

2004-11-28

- Shortcuts XML file has changed from using attributes to content for key name
- I've started building the config applet. It opens a dialogue but doesn't do much with it yet