Start work on a very simple port of multi-gnome-terminal to gtk2 and python.

Rather than a real port this is intended to be a quick hack for me to have more terminals with less screen space wasted

vte-demo.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+import sys
+import string
+import getopt
+import gtk
+import vte
+
+def selected_cb(terminal, column, row, cb_data):
+	if (row == 15):
+		if (column < 40):
+			return 1
+	return 0
+
+def restore_cb(terminal):
+	(text, attrs) = terminal.get_text(selected_cb, 1)
+	print "A portion of the text at restore-time is:"
+	print text
+
+def child_exited_cb(terminal):
+	gtk.main_quit()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+	child_pid = -1;
+	# Defaults.
+	audible = 0
+	background = None
+	blink = 0
+	command = None
+	emulation = "xterm"
+	font = "fixed 12"
+	scrollback = 100
+	transparent = 0
+	visible = 0
+	# Let the user override them.
+	(shorts, longs) = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], "B:Tabc:f:n:t:v", ["background", "transparent", "audible", "blink", "command=", "font=", "scrollback=", "terminal=", "visible"])
+	for argpair in (shorts + longs):
+		if ((argpair[0] == '-B') or (argpair[0] == '--background')):
+			print "Setting background image to `" + argpair[1] + "'."
+			background = argpair[1]
+		if ((argpair[0] == '-T') or (argpair[0] == '--transparent')):
+			print "Setting transparency."
+			transparent = not transparent
+		if ((argpair[0] == '-a') or (argpair[0] == '--audible')):
+			print "Setting audible bell."
+			audible = not audible
+		if ((argpair[0] == '-b') or (argpair[0] == '--blink')):
+			print "Setting blinking cursor."
+			blink = not blink
+		if ((argpair[0] == '-c') or (argpair[0] == '--command')):
+			print "Running command `" + argpair[1] + "'."
+			command = argpair[1]
+		if ((argpair[0] == '-f') or (argpair[0] == '--font')):
+			print "Setting font to `" + argpair[1] + "'."
+			font = argpair[1]
+		if ((argpair[0] == '-n') or (argpair[0] == '--scrollback')):
+			scrollback = string.atoi(argpair[1])
+			if (scrollback == 0):
+				scrollback = 100
+			else:
+				print "Setting scrollback size to `" + str(scrollback) + "'."
+		if ((argpair[0] == '-t') or (argpair[0] == '--terminal')):
+			print "Setting terminal type to `" + argpair[1] + "'."
+			emulation = argpair[1]
+		if ((argpair[0] == '-v') or (argpair[0] == '--visible')):
+			print "Setting visible bell."
+			visible = not visible
+	window = gtk.Window()
+	terminal = vte.Terminal()
+	if (background):
+		terminal.set_background_image(background)
+	if (transparent):
+		terminal.set_background_transparent(gtk.TRUE)
+	terminal.set_cursor_blinks(blink)
+	terminal.set_emulation(emulation)
+	terminal.set_font_from_string(font)
+	terminal.set_scrollback_lines(scrollback)
+	terminal.set_audible_bell(audible)
+	terminal.set_visible_bell(visible)
+	terminal.connect("child-exited", child_exited_cb)
+	terminal.connect("restore-window", restore_cb)
+	if (command):
+		# Start up the specified command.
+		child_pid = terminal.fork_command(command)
+	else:
+		# Start up the default command, the user's shell.
+		child_pid = terminal.fork_command()
+	terminal.show()
+
+	scrollbar = gtk.VScrollbar()
+	scrollbar.set_adjustment(terminal.get_adjustment())
+
+	box = gtk.HBox()
+	box.pack_start(terminal)
+	box.pack_start(scrollbar)
+
+	window.add(box)
+	window.show_all()
+	gtk.main()