Update VTE from 0.64.0 to 0.84.1 #3478
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0.84.1 is the newest release (2026-07-18). Besides the GTK 3 library
libvte-2.91.so.0 (same soname, so xfce4-terminal keeps working), the
package now also contains the GTK 4 flavour libvte-2.91-gtk4.so.0.
The installed VTE 0.64.0 is from 2021 and too old for xfce4-terminal
1.1.5, setting the property scroll-unit-is-pixels (VTE 0.66 and later).
At startup it logs:
(xfce4-terminal:102084): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 08:22:41.156: g_object_set_is_valid_property: object class 'TerminalWidget' has no property named 'scroll-unit-is-pixels'
With 0.84.1 the message is gone.
The release tarball vendors fast_float, fmt and simdutf in
subprojects/. fast_float and simdutf are dependency() fallbacks, and
bee’s meson DEFCONFIG passes `--wrap-mode=nofallback`, so allow exactly
these two with `--force-fallback-for`. None of them gets installed.
meson.build accepts g++ >= 12.1, but since commit 33e3bcec ("all: Use
out_ptr") the sources use `std::out_ptr`, which libstdc++ only provides
since GCC 14. With GCC 12.5 the build fails:
FAILED: src/libvte-2.91.so.0.8400.1.p/vte.cc.o
../source/src/vte.cc:7921:72: error: ‘out_ptr’ is not a member of ‘std’; did you mean ‘auto_ptr’?
Patch the source to pass plain pointers at the three call sites instead.
Tested with `fakeroot beesh -c` on hotelcalifornia, and under Xvfb:
vte-2.91, vte-2.91-gtk4, and /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal (VTE_VERSION=8401)
start, run a child, and render UTF-8, bold and colours.
Assisted-by: claude-opus-5.5 (Claude Code)
Since 0.80.0, `-Dapp=true` (the default) also installs org.gnome.Vte.App.Gtk3.desktop and org.gnome.Vte.App.Gtk4.desktop into share/applications and share/xdg-terminals. The VTE test terminals then show up in application menus, and xdg-terminal-exec may pick one of them. 0.64.0 installed /usr/bin/vte-2.91 without a desktop file. Keep the binaries for testing, but remove both directories. Tested with `fakeroot beesh -c`: the package contains /usr/bin/vte-2.91 and /usr/bin/vte-2.91-gtk4, and no .desktop file. Assisted-by: claude-opus-5.5 (Claude Code)
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Update with
sudo bee update vte-0.84.1-0.x86_64.Built with
fakeroot beesh -con hotelcalifornia from the committed recipe (sources from beehive). Under Xvfb,vte-2.91,vte-2.91-gtk4and the installed xfce4-terminal 1.1.5 against the new library (VTE_VERSION=8401) start and run a child. Text renders correctly: UTF-8, bold and colours.