On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 08:10:06AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Son, 12 Feb 2006, Denis Barbier wrote: > > > - the settings do not affect all terminals, only the one I am logged in > > > and call dpkg-reconfigure, so I cannot enter any umlauts in any other > > > console thant the one I called setupconf from. > > > > This is normal, users cannot modify other ttys unless they are also > > logged into them. > > Then what are the settings tty[1-6] for? I did ALL this as root! And > root should be able to change everything?
I assumed that you were running setupcon as a normal user. As root, it should indeed change all ttys, and it does indeed with my tests. You may run "setupcon -v". If you only see one message "Loading font ..." this means that setupcon tries to change only the current tty. [...] > I assume that this has something todo with some double-width chars, or > utf8 encoded chars which somehow manage to come into the console as one > 8bit char to be displayed, but in some buffer they are still as two > chars. Yes, this is surely the case. Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
