Richard Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| I've recently upgraded my version of X from XFree86 3.1.2 to version 3.3.2.3
| and installed a binary distribution.
| I have problems when displaying man pages in xterms. The fonts go into
| reverse video and underline mode at random when scrolling up and down and the
| effect lasts unti lanother font change occurs. Ie. the underline and reverse
| video features are being turned on but aren't being turned off until the next
| attempt to use them. When scrolling by whole pages the effect is confined to
| only a line or two. [...]
| When displaying man pages from a console the problem does not occur.
Say:
echo $TERM
Does it say "xterm"? If not, that's most likely your problem; something has
trashed your TERM variable's value (which is normally set by xterm and passed
to the shell it runs).
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Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
When dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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