Strange characters in command line in X
Hi everybody,
Thanking to yourselves I am making my way in LFS. I recently solved the following issues: 1. install nVidia drivers for my old TNT2 Vanta (installer complained about not finding Linux headers). 2. see graphic files in Gnome (I blindly followed GTK+2 build instructions and compiled it "--without-libjpeg --without-libtiff"). 3. see USB memory stick (I didn't enable "SCSI drive support" in the kernel) 4. have ALSA save and restore volumes after reboot (had to reconfigure kernel to have all sound-related things compiled as modules, and install "dialog") Now there's one single thing not solved - X terminal displays some strange characters, e.g. when pressing "Backspace" or bringing up the previous typed command with "Arrow up". I posted it before, but none of the advice helped. I would be greatful if anyone's got a clue Vitalie CIUBOTARU |
Try these commands:
Code:
echo $LANG |
Does "export TERM=xterm" help?
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Neither "echo $LANG", nor "echo $LANGUAGE" produce any output. "printenv" doesn't contain such environment variables.
"echo $TERM" yields "xterm-color", changing it to "xterm" does not seem to make a difference. It looks like xterm interprets them correctly, but it just doesn't refresh the screen. Vitalie CIUBOTARU P.S.: Can it be a particular dependency of Xorg that I didn't build properly? |
Have you tried the stty command? This command will show you all of it's current settings:
Code:
stty -a Code:
stty ek Also man loadkeys. |
The funny thing is that when I run "xterm" in Gnome environment [instead of default "gnome-terminal"] it works ok. This means it's a font problem, right? I tried them all, one by one, in "gnome-terminal" - none works.
1. Can it be a font problem, indeed? 2. What font do I need? 3. Where can I get it? |
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