Here's a good one. If I open up Konsole, things like man have strange characters in places they don't belong. The best way to actually see it, is to go into /usr/src/linux-2.4 and run make menuconfig. That causes funky chars on my 2 linux boxes every time.

Does anybody else have this problem?

-Brian

Such problems appear when you have not-English language set and not all fonts support the encoding (after you change font in the console it should be OK).

Yes. I also have this same problem. I simply upgrade a 7.3 system to 8.0 and Konsole does not refesh the screen correctly. Nor does it display characters correctly. I can not even attempt to read a man page, because it is so badly mangled on the screen.

My country and language are USA and English US, respectively.

Changing the font/keyboard/size/schema all do no good to correct this problem which the upgrade broke, nor does 'stty sane'.

While good ole reliable xterm works flawlessly, I haven't a clue how to undo what damage the upgrade has done to Konsole.

Thanks to a buddy this problem can be corrected by setting the Konsole font to a Custom fixed font.

I am using fixed fonts (I think): monospace. I think this is the font Konsole uses (in RH 8) by default. I also noticed the problem while looking a man (apt-get) file.

Rimmer,
There are several places within Linux to affect the fonts.
However, to effect the Konsole you must select the Konsole "Settings" menu and then "Font".
To correct this problem, choose "Custom" under "Font",
then select "Fixed", of which there are three varieties.
I am using "FIxed [Misc]"

Hope this helps,

Kenb

I don't have the option of selecting those fonts in Konsole. I chose monospace because its listed as a fixed width font in the KDE fonts control panel.

My list of Konsole fonts is:

Andale Mono
Several Courier fonts
A couple of Lucida fonts
Monospace

Where do you get Fixed fonts?

Rimmer,
Funny, I don't have any Monotype listed in my Konsole Custom fonts, even though it does show up under the Look&Feel of the Control Panel. Lucida and Courier both cleared this problem for me as well. I t ried a few other that worked too. It seems that choosing a Custom font may be all that you need to do to fix the problem under Konsole.

Kenb

Unfortunately its my least favorite font selectable from Konsole. The Courier fonts (and even Lucida Console) still give me strange characters. Anyone know how to add more fonts to Konsole?

I, too, have seen not only incorrectly displayed characters on the Konsole (particularly when viewing man pages), but also persistent little bits of characters left over and scattered about the screen. In some cases, "black rivers" actually run through characters - the truncation points are very clear in displays of dense text.

In addition, when I try to use Konsole with minicom to communicate with an embedded system over COM1 (/dev/ttyS0), the minicom uses incorrect characters, and the embedded system fails to recognize <Fx> keypresses at all (eg <F1>, etc.).

The problem began with the installation of RedHat 8.0 (with KDE 3.0.3, Qt 3.0.5, and Konsole 1.1.3). I use the "Linux" colors (white text on a black background). I have tried all of the following to eliminate the problem:

1) Change fonts, using the "Custom" selection in the Konsole "Settings"-"Font" menu. My custom fonts are the following: Courier, Courier 10 Pitch, Lucidatypewriter, Luxi Mono, and Monospace. (No fonts with the name "fixed" are available.) All of these fonts appear =usually= to fix the "screen scat" left by the standard Konsole font, but only Lucidatypewriter =usually= displays characters correctly in man pages and in minicom. I have on occasion seen the "black rivers" and "screen scat" even with the Lucisatypewriter font...

2) Point KDE and Konsole at the correct font directories in the file "/etc/X11/X86Config": They should all start with the path "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/...". This fix actually seems to have eliminated the old "could not find font -misc-16-..." error that I saw in other postings. (Or perhaps the upgrade actually traded that error in for this new set of font errors :-) )

3) I have tried checking and unchecking the "transparent" attribute in the "Settings"-"Configure Konsole" dialog box: the scat and black rivers remain with the standard Konsole font.

Would anyone from the KDE development team like to weigh in on these issues? Konsole used to be such a clean, flexible console presentation application. I saw one posting elsewhere that suggested downgrading Qt from 3.0.5 to 3.0.4, but I have not yet tried this...

I would greatly appreciate any help in this area!

Thanks.

-Steve

I'm having similar problems, including viewing man pages, and viewing man pages using a php script.

I searched in a lot of places on the Web for answers, and finally found that the following combination seems to work OK for me:

1) I use the Lucidatypewriter font for Konsole.

2) At the end of my ~/.bashrc script, I include the line:
"export LANG=en"
Note that this modification to the bash startup script must be applied for every user on the machine , including root, in order to prevent the problem from occurring for those users as well.

I hope this helps.

-Steve

I have the same problem in redhat 8.0, I use gnome and there is no Konsole which is for Kde, ( my keyboard is french ) the problem is whith the Alt-gr key
.
in the terminal there is no option to choose the font

I notice when i hit b and alt-gr, it gives a double quote a long list of b like "bbbbbbbb


where to fix the problem

thanks for help

just change /etc/sysconfig/i18n
LANG="en_US:UTF-8" to
LANG="en_US" and your console should look fine.

Of course you need admin rights for this....

Facemann

I had the same problem with junk in Konsole after upgrading to RedHat 8.0. I fixed it by eliminating the /etc/profile.d/lang.sh file. I'm a total newbie, so I don' t know what other effects this will have.

As a result of eliminating this script, the LANG environment variable is no longer defined, I'm hoping that anything that was using it will simply default to English.

Ed.