Re: mc font problem

From: houghi (houghi_at_houghi.org.invalid)
Date: 05/14/04 

Date: 14 May 2004 21:46:41 GMT

Ed Hurst wrote:
> houghi wrote:
>> Normally when I run mc, I get nice lines. Now I get all kind of strange
>> caracters. Where can I set the correct font to use? At least I asume it
>> has to do with the font.
>
> I have seen that effect only in Konsole and in some versions of
> Gnome-Terminal. I wish I could tell you the secret to fixing it, but I
> don't know it. Currently, my only problem with MC in Konsole is ghost
> images and such. I only use MC in Xterm or in the console. I am told it
> has something to do with whether MC is compiled with ncurses or svgalib,
> and perhaps some compile-time options, but it's over my head.

I tried it in Eterm, aterm and wterm and they all gave the samme strange
caracters. I tried it with xterm, konsole and gnome-terminal and there I
did not have the problem. 

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