pepe-global / gtkterm

Julien Schmitt's GTKTerm Serial Port Terminal with patches for GTK+ 3 / vte3

GTKTerm : a GTK+ serial port terminal

Original Code by: Julien Schmitt

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Command line options

--help or -h : this help screen
--config <configuration> or -c : load configuration
--port <device> or -p : serial port device (default /dev/ttyS0)
--speed <speed> or -s : serial port speed (default 9600)
--bits <bits> or -b : number of bits (default 8)
--stopbits <stopbits> or -t : number of stopbits (default 1)
--parity <odd | even> or -a : parity (default none)
--flow <Xon | CTS> or -w : flow control (default none)
--delay <ms> or -d : end of line delay in ms (default none)
--char <char> or -r : wait for a special char at end of line (default none)
--file <filename> or -f : default file to send (default none)
--echo or -e : switch on local echo

Keyboard shortcuts

As Gtkterm is often used like a terminal emulator, the shortcut keys are assigned to <ctrl><shift>, rather than just <ctrl>. This allows the user to send keystrokes of the form <ctrl>X and not have Gtkterm intercept them.

<ctrl><shift>L -- Clear screen
<ctrl><shift>R -- Send file
<ctrl><shift>Q -- Quit 
<ctrl><shift>S -- Configure port
<ctrl><shift>V -- Paste
<ctrl><shift>C -- Copy
<ctrl>B	 -- Send break
F5 -- Open Port
F6 -- Close Port
F7 -- Toggle DTR
F8 -- Toggle RTS

NOTES on RS485:

The RS485 flow control is a software user-space emulation and therefore may not work for all configurations (won't respond quickly enough). If this is the case for your setup, you will need to either use a dedicated RS232 to RS485 converter, or look for a kernel level driver. This is an inherent limitation to user space programs.

Building:

GtkTerm has a few dependencies-

• Gtk+3.0 (version 3.12 or higher)
• vte (version 0.40 or higher)
• intltool (version 0.40.0 or higher)

Once these dependencies are installed, most people should simply run:

./configure
make
#  And to install:
make install

If you wish to install Gtkterm someplace other than the default directory, use:

./configure --prefix=/install/directory

Then build and install as usual.

See INSTALL for more detailed build and install options.