X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: Jeff Hawk To: Pavel Tsekov CC: Didier BRETIN , "cygwin@cygwin.com" Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 11:06:10 -0500 Subject: RE: [ncurses] strange characters with rxvt Message-ID: References: <46386111.60206@bretin.net> In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Envelope-From: X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id l42G78br015857 > -----Original Message----- > From: On Behalf > Of Pavel Tsekov > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:43 AM > Cc: Didier BRETIN; > Subject: RE: [ncurses] strange characters with rxvt > > On Wed, 2 May 2007, Jeff Hawk wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: On Behalf > >> Of Didier BRETIN > >> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:00 AM > >> To: Cygwin at Cygwin dot com > >> Subject: [ncurses] strange characters with rxvt > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have installed ncurses and ncurses-demo on an XP box. I launch the > >> demo in a cmd window and in a rxvt. I have strange characters in the > >> rxvt, as you can see at > >> http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ncursesrxvtiu6.jpg > >> > >> I use rxvt without X. > >> > >> Did I miss something in the configuration of rxvt ? > >> > > > > From the rxvt website: > > rxvt is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm(1) > replacement for users who do not require features such as Tektronix 4014 > emulation and toolkit-style configurability. As a result, rxvt uses much > less swap space. > > > > Therefore, rxvt is intended for X. > > > > As you are running it, it does not support the line drawing character > sets. > > This is not true. Please, take a look here: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg01021.html I don't know what you're trying to tell me with this, but rxvt is an XTERM replacement and is therefore intended to run under X. > > 1) Basically you need to get the following font: > > http://dessent.net/tmp/luconP.zip > > 2) Set the TERM environment variable to rxvt-cygwin-native > > 3) Run rxvt like this: > > rxvt -fn "Lucida ConsoleP-14" other-options-here When I tried this from a CMD window, rxvt still started under X. --Jeff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/