Re: use of graphics characters recently disabled in xterm
I had this (or something similar) happen some years back probably with Konsole on an Kubuntu installation. Probably AMD cpu also. I cannot remember now what I did to fix. Possibly put the characters into mc.ini. Will On 09/09/17 10:57, Theodore Kilgore wrote: I have recently done some upgrades, keeping current with slackware-64-current. And what has happened is that suddenly MC started to print funny characters around the panels instead of printing vertical and horizontal lines. This happens only in an xterm, not in the console terminal where all remains OK. The command mc -a replaces the straight lines with vertical and horizontal dashes, but that does not look nearly so nice. Oh, I should also say that this happens only on my home machine which has an AMD processor and on-board ATI video. It does not happen on the machine at my office, which is an Intel CPU with on-board Intel graphics. The two machines both run slackware-64-current and as far as I know the two machines have exactly the same list of distro packages installed. The only thing I can think of is that something in the options for xterm needs to be changed, but I have no clue about what that magic option might be. Or, it could possibly be some library which deals with graphics and is somehow broken on an AMD-based machine. I am pretty much guessing, of course, but to fix the problem would be nice. Anyone have an idea? Theodore Kilgore ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: use of graphics characters recently disabled in xterm
On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Theodore Kilgore wrote: The only thing I can think of is that something in the options for xterm needs to be changed, but I have no clue about what that magic option might be. Or, it could possibly be some library which deals with graphics and is somehow broken on an AMD-based machine. I am pretty much guessing, of course, but to fix the problem would be nice. Anyone have an idea? Check your TERM (echo $TERM) variable in xterm. Most probably the slackware switched to xterm-256color or something. Also check the output of "locale" and check the Ctrl-right click menu in xterm for some font settings. Theodore Kilgore Adam Pribyl ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
Re: use of graphics characters recently disabled in xterm
On Fri, 8 Sep 2017, Theodore Kilgore wrote: The only thing I can think of is that something in the options for xterm needs to be changed, but I have no clue about what that magic option might be. Or, it could possibly be some library which deals with graphics and is somehow broken on an AMD-based machine. This must have something to do either with your locale settings, or with fonts that are used by xterm, but certainly not with the graphics libraries or hardware, way too low-level. In any case, the next debugging step that I would recommend is to create a brand new user on your machine, log in as this user in the graphical mode, start xterm and try mc. Depending on the results, decide on what to do next. The new user can be deleted afterwards with no traces left. -- Sincerely yours, Yury V. Zaytsev ___ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
