On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 06:42:52PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: | Hello | | in the meantime in managed to set up a somehow working X setup, there | are still some glichtes running around... | | the xterm still shows white on white an empty screen,
You can control xterm's colors via the ~/.Xdefaults file. I like
white-on-black so I have the following lines :
XTerm*VT100*background: black
XTerm*VT100*foreground: white
Try setting those to colors of your preference and see if that helps.
| also the fonts of the gnome term doesn't seem to know isolatin
| chars? will this be solved by the misterious setting? or do i need
| to install special fonts?
Which gnome-terminal? The gnome-terminal from gnome 1.4 uses GTK+ 1.2
and that doesn't support multibyte fonts, so you certainly can't use
any Unicode locales with it. The gnome-terminal starting with gnome
2.0 uses GTK+ 2.0 which has better i18n support, including supporting
Unicode locales. Personally I like xterm better anyways, but YMMV.
For xterm, include the following in ~/.Xdefaults
XTerm*utf8: 1
XTerm*VT100*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
In your environment set LANG=en_US.UTF-8 (or something similar), and
in ~/.vimrc include
language en_US.UTF-8
set enc=utf-8
set fenc=utf-8
(the 'language' setting in the .vimrc is in case vim isn't executed
from a subprocess of bash and thus doesn't inherit the $LANG
environment setting in my .bashrc)
HTH,
-D
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