On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 11:47:59AM EST, enathan...@pcis.com wrote: > Good day guys, > > I'm having a bit of display trouble when using Elinks from Putty: > > http://i.imgur.com/omWJZ.png > > Would anyone happen to know why? > > System: > - Ubuntu Server 10.10 > - Installing elinks from apt-get repo (no modification/customization) > - Using Putty > > The odd part is that if I use the console directly, elinks will display > borders as expected
Saw something similar with the ELinks version that I picked up from the debian ‘lenny’ repos (may be the same as Ubuntu 10.10), that may have had something to do with unicode support. The fact that you don't see the problem in the linux console and see it in putty suggests you may have run into the same problem. Anyway, I downloaded the source of a more current version of ELinks and made sure that I checked ‘VT100 frames’ in the pull down menu (Setup -> Terminal Options) and the problem went away. But then again my environment is quite different, since I have my locale set to the default UTF-8 and I am using a unicode-capable version of xterm (uxterm or ‘xterm -u8’). Unless someone more knowledgeable comes up with a real solution, I would suggest you play a bit with changing your locale, switch to a unicode version of putty (if relevant) or a different emulator, and use the Terminal Options dialog to specify different frames and see if you get them to display correctly. I have a feeling that the ‘no frames’ option that gives you ASCII characters such as ‘+-----+’ instead of the frames drawn using the prettier line-drawing characters and that should work in all circumstances. This might provide a tolerable workaround while you research this further. CJ _______________________________________________ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
