msiedlarek / ktterm

Kindle Touch Terminal

Kindle Touch Terminal

KTTerm is a terminal emulator for Kindle Touch device. It is based on the GTK+ terminal emulator widget - VTE.

KTTerm supports standard -e option (available in all (?) terminal emulators), which can be used to specify the program and its command line arguments to be run in the KTTerm window. If this option is not given, the standard command line interpreter /bin/sh is launched.

Keyboard shortcuts

• Fn + F - toggle full-screen mode
• Fn + plus (+) - increase font size
• Fn + minus (-) - decrease font size
• Fn + 0 - restore font size

These functions are available only with the build-in keyboard.

Keyboard toggle

It is possible to hide/show keyboard by the tap-and-hold action on the upper-right corner of the KTTerm window. This action is available for build-in and Kindle on-board keyboard.

Compilation

$ autoreconf --install
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ export KINDLE_ROOTDIR=<absolute_patch_to_the_Kindle_root_directory>
$ ../configure --enable-kindle-env --host=armv7a-softfp-linux-gnueabi
$ make

Note: Enabling Kindle development environment during configuration requires static libraries for json-c and VTE. It is possible to compile KTTerm using standard configuration, however such an action might produce executable incompatible with libraries available on Kindle.

Note²: It is possible to link KTTerm against a proprietary lipc library using --with-lipc flag during configuration. Otherwise, shell wrapper will be used instead.

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