Re: annoying problem with ncurses, acs_chars and xterm

2000-02-16 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
Ollivier Robert wrote: > > According to Jose M. Alcaide: > > Hummm... is there any way to force ncurses to use the old '-', '|' and > > '+' characters for drawing lines and boxes (perhaps the "ac" termcap > > capabilility)? I prefer lucidatypewriter over fixed font. > > Better solution : grab xm

Re: annoying problem with ncurses, acs_chars and xterm

2000-02-15 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Jose M. Alcaide: > Hummm... is there any way to force ncurses to use the old '-', '|' and > '+' characters for drawing lines and boxes (perhaps the "ac" termcap > capabilility)? I prefer lucidatypewriter over fixed font. Better solution : grab xmbdfed from ports and edit the font you

Re: annoying problem with ncurses, acs_chars and xterm

2000-02-15 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Jose M. Alcaide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found an annoying problem: the line drawing chars are not drawn > in xterms. I haven't examined this issue in detail, but the line drawing works fine with a current xterm instead of the stale one shipping with XFree 3.3.6, so it can't be purely a te

Re: annoying problem with ncurses, acs_chars and xterm

2000-02-15 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Jose M. Alcaide" writes: : Hummm... is there any way to force ncurses to use the old '-', '|' and : '+' characters for drawing lines and boxes (perhaps the "ac" termcap : capabilility)? I prefer lucidatypewriter over fixed font. On second thought: xterm-foo:as=:ae

Re: annoying problem with ncurses, acs_chars and xterm

2000-02-15 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alexander Leidinger writes: > : Works here without problems (TERM = xterm & xterm-color). > : > : Wild guess: Does your shell support 8bit-chars? > > No. The line drawing characters aren't 8 bit characters on VT100 > derived terminals. My g

Re: annoying problem with ncurses, acs_chars and xterm

2000-02-15 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Jose M. Alcaide" writes: : Hummm... is there any way to force ncurses to use the old '-', '|' and : '+' characters for drawing lines and boxes (perhaps the "ac" termcap : capabilility)? I prefer lucidatypewriter over fixed font. Yes. It's all a matter of the right

Re: annoying problem with ncurses, acs_chars and xterm

2000-02-15 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alexander Leidinger writes: : Works here without problems (TERM = xterm & xterm-color). : : Wild guess: Does your shell support 8bit-chars? No. The line drawing characters aren't 8 bit characters on VT100 derived terminals. My guess is that you don't have a prope

Re: annoying problem with ncurses, acs_chars and xterm

2000-02-15 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
Alexander Leidinger wrote: > > On 15 Feb, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > > I found an annoying problem: the line drawing chars are not drawn > > in xterms. This can be tested with talk(1), grdc(6), or simply > > with a command like "dialog --yesno Test 5 15". However, it works > > from the system conso

Re: annoying problem with ncurses, acs_chars and xterm

2000-02-15 Thread Alexander Leidinger
On 15 Feb, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > I found an annoying problem: the line drawing chars are not drawn > in xterms. This can be tested with talk(1), grdc(6), or simply > with a command like "dialog --yesno Test 5 15". However, it works > from the system console, using TERM=cons25 and TERM=cons25l1.

annoying problem with ncurses, acs_chars and xterm

2000-02-15 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
I found an annoying problem: the line drawing chars are not drawn in xterms. This can be tested with talk(1), grdc(6), or simply with a command like "dialog --yesno Test 5 15". However, it works from the system console, using TERM=cons25 and TERM=cons25l1. If using TERM=xterm-color from an xterm,