On Tue, July 01 at 6:27 PM EDT Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 02:58:05PM +0100, Paladin wrote: >> For some time now I've been having some problems with ncurses >> programs inside X. When running "make menuconfig", for example, >> inside xterm or Eterm all frame lines appear as characters! > >Well, I can't speak to what Eterm does, but this usually is because >xterm thinks the font you're using (whatever it is) has line-drawing >characters, and it doesn't. Are you running xterm anti-aliased? Marc's explanation sounds right. The other suggestion I can think of is to set your xterm to 80x25. I think they are 80x24 by default. if you do $echo $COLUMNS $LINES from an xterm it will tell you what you have. >P.S. - I tried sending this mail with an attachment, but the mail >didn't seem to get there with it. This is a text only mailing list, nothing wrong on your end. Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]