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Project Summary
VTE is an embeddable terminal emulation widget. It is what does most of the work for gnome-terminal (gnome-terminal is just a vte widget in a window with a menu bar).
Other applications that use VTE include: ROXTerm, XFCE Terminal, termit, Tilda, Gnome Terminator, osso-xterm, stjerm, LilyTerm, AntiRight, sakura, GTKTerm2, and evilvte.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 20 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in February, 2002
ending with its most recent commit 14 days ago
Quick Reference
http://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte
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This Project has No vulnerabilities Reported Against it
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