Re: Strange problem with xterm
Re: Strange problem with xterm
- Subject: Re: Strange problem with xterm
- From: David Chopp <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:13:16 -0600
Well, I have at least found a solution thanks to you. Here's what I've figured out:
1. The settings in .Xdefaults and/or .Xresources were causing the menu to be small. Moving them out made the menu big enough for me to choose UTF8 fonts. I think the geometry data, which for xterm means # of characters was being interpreted as # of pixels for the menu (just a guess).
2. Selecting the UTF8 fonts menu did solve the compiler message problem.
So bottom line is I'm back in business. Thanks for your help!
Dave
On Jan 12, 2012, at 1:03 PM, David Chopp wrote:
> I have a ~/.bashrc and a ~/.profile file and put the export command in both (in fact, putting it in .profile did no good, but putting it in .bashrc set $LANG correctly, but had no effect on the problem. Both .Xdefaults and .Xresources have the same contents listed below:
>
> $ cat .Xdefaults
> XTerm.*.geometry: 80x70
> XTerm.*.scrollBar: on
>
> $ cat .Xresources
> XTerm.*.geometry: 80x70
> XTerm.*.scrollBar: on
>
> Seems pretty innocuous, but I'll try moving those files to see if they are the cause.
>
> On Jan 12, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 13:47, David Chopp <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Thanks for your help, I think you've identified the problem, but I'm having trouble following your instructions. On the Ubuntu system it's using UTF8, and locally on the mac $LANG was undefined/blank. I did the control-right-click in an X11 window, but I get a small window where I
>>
>> $LANG would normally be set by OS X based on your locale settings. You can set it in ~/.profile or ~/.bash_profile (depending on which you have; if you don't have one, use ~/.profile):
>>
>> export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>>
>> If the xterm menus are broken, I'd suspect contents of ~/.Xdefaults / ~/.Xresources, in particular the font settings.
>>
>> --
>> brandon s allbery email@hidden
>> wandering unix systems administrator (available) (412) 475-9364 vm/sms
>>
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David Chopp
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Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
Northwestern University
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Phone: (847)-491-8391
Fax: (847)-491-2178
Homepage: http://people.esam.northwestern.edu/chopp
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