This fork is adding a few features and correcting a few bugs to the original CuteCom.
- UI layout modified
- Option to view control chars
- Automatic opening of device at startup
- New shortcuts
Version is 0.23.0, forked from 0.22.0
Antoine Calando
CuteCom 0.22.0, June 27th, 2009
CuteCom is a graphical serial terminal, similar to minicom. It is aimed mainly at hardware developers or other people who need a terminal to talk to their devices. It is free software and distributed under the GNU General Public License Version 2, which can find in the file COPYING.
It is written using the Qt library by Trolltech (www.trolltech.com), at least version 4.1.0 is required.
CuteCom doesn't use the autotools (autoconf, automake, libtool, etc.) but CMake (http://www.cmake.org), you need at least version 2.4.3. Enter the source directory and run "cmake ." followed by make and make install and you're done. To make sure it can find Qt4, set the PATH so that qmake from Qt4 is in the PATH (and comes before qmake from Qt3 in the PATH), e.g.: export PATH=/opt/qt4/bin:$PATH; cmake .
If you are using CMake >= 2.6.0, adjust the CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH environment variable instead of PATH to help CMake finding Qt4, e.g.: export CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/qt4; cmake .
To uninstall cutecom simply delete the file "cutecom" and the file "cutecom.desktop" amd your done. The config file is ~/.config/CuteCom/CuteCom.conf.
Currently it is known to run on Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X, and porting to other systems should be easy. Everything platformspecific should be in QCPPDialogImpl::setNewOptions(). Distributions welcome :-) Now that it uses Qt4 it should also be portable to Windows.
CuteCom is heavily inspired by Bray++ for Windows (http://bray.velenje.cx/avr/terminal/)
Homepage: http://cutecom.sourceforge.net
Alexander Neundorf [email protected]