mlterm configurator on curses

What is mlterm configurator on curses?

A tiny tool to change terminal setting of mlterm through escape sequence.

If you have installed gtk, mlconfig is available and you will never need this tool at all.
mlconfig is a GUI configurator and should be more user-friendly.

Or you can also use w3mmlconfig if you have installed w3m.

When you are not using both of them, this tool will help you to change

• Terminal encoding
• X Input Method
• Font size/color
• Anti Aliasing
• Wall picture
• Transparent background
• ... and more .

Actually, you can send escape sequence to mlterm by hand and control the setting. For example,

 echo -e "\e]5379;wall_picture=/path/to/file.jpg\x07"
 

will change wall picture to /path/to/file.jpg. This tool was written to automagically generate such a magic word instead of you.

Requirement

• perl 5 (5.6 is recommended)
• ncurses 5.2 or compatible (BSD curses 4.2 is known to be problematic)

Install

It's a plain perl script. You do not have to do anything to run.

You can try by

perl mlconf_curses.pl

To install,

(If your perl is not in /usr/bin, edit "PERL=" line in Makefile.)

make&make install

Afer instllation, you sould be able to run this tool by

mlconf_curses

(.pl is omitted because 1. it's ugly. 2. someday this tool would be rewriten in other language.)

To Do

• Implement file selector (someday)
• Handle errors (REQUIRED)
• Write documents (who reads?)
• NLS (impossible?)
• Get rid of curses (I *know* TERM is mlterm...)
• Support non-standard colors (pink, lightgray etc.)
• Serialization (write back changes to config file)

Author

MINAMI Hirokazu (minami@chem.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp)