X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <31b7d2790705020917s72126b8v9e39cf29bbfa81b0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 11:17:41 -0500 From: "DePriest, Jason R." To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ncurses] strange characters with rxvt In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46386111.60206@bretin.net> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On 5/2/07, Jeff Hawk wrote: > > -----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 > > -- Cygwin's rxvt package in setup does not require X to run. From README: "VT102 terminal emulator for both X and Windows." Cygwin has rxvt packages that require X but the 'rxvt' package does not. -Jason -- 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/