Re: Problem with /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
Re: Problem with /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
- Subject: Re: Problem with /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
- From: "Cook, Rich" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:48:14 -0800
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: Problem with /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm
On Dec 6, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:
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> On 12/6/10 17:18 , Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
>> Er, no, wait, you said my "less /etc/passwd" test worked fine. That
>> seems to contradict my little theory. But we're grasping at straws
>> here, so I'd run the test anyhow.
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> That's why I asked about the control-rightbutton menu; certain kinds of font
> screwups (font metrics screwups in particular; and some of them only show if
> you enable use of double-wide characters) only show if you move around in a
> line, whereas "less" often doesn't need anything other than \r to work
> unless you scroll backwards or etc.
less /etc/passwd works no matter how I push it, scrolling, resizing, etc.
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> xterm is a beast with lots of oddly interacting behaviors related to fonts.
Note that I just posted elsewhere that bash is hosed in Terminal.app as well! So it might be a bash thing.
tcsh does not seem to work at all with line endings.
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> For that matter, would be interesting to see "xprop -root RESOURCE_MANAGER"
> output to spot anything else interesting going on, for example trying to use
> xft fonts (a completely separate mechanism from the normal one and prone to
> its own oddnesses).
cook47@rcmac (~): xprop -root RESOURCE_MANAGER
RESOURCE_MANAGER: not found.
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