Re: [PLUG] Midnight Commander display borked
On 12/28/20 10:33 AM, Nat Taylor wrote: > Hmm... Everything but LC_ALL is UTF-8 > mc -a does fix it > But I have figured out that I was using xfce4-terminal instead of Konsole > or QTerminal, and the problem is only there. > > I guess the moral of the story is to use mc -a if you are using > xfce4-terminal, or just use a different terminal for mc > > I had installed pv and progress in attempts to get progress meters while > transferring files to my new hard drive from the command line over the > network, but then realized that mc already had progress meters and worked > great. > > I guess they weren't the culprits after all. > > I guess I hadn't tried mc in the xfce4-terminal I had inadvertently > launched. Unless me installing advcpmv locally to test somehow borked it > just for xfce4-terminal > > I've used mc with xfce-terminal for years and ages. versions 4.10, 4.12 had some issues with line drawing characters with some system fonts, 4.14 was better. I'm on 4.16 now (xfce-terminal-0.8.10). spiffy! in ~/.bashrc I have # Set 256 color for XFCE terminal if [ "$COLORTERM" == "xfce4-terminal" ] ; then export TERM=xterm-256color I also have xfce-terminal preferences set to use "Monospace Regular 12pt" Note that, depending on xfce-terminal and mc versions, not all Options -> Appearance work well in xfce-terminal. pick one that looks good. With UTF-8 and mc46 should always work fine without the -a option. There are a number of styles that may work better with your default system font. If you like mc, check out krusader (part of KDE5) btw, rsync also has a progress meter option (--progress and --info=progress) All the GUI and CLI file managers have progress bars. I have no idea why there are so may duplicate projects to add stuff to mv, cp etc, when rsync works just fine when you RTFM. Moral of the story: Don't blame xfce-terminal for PEBKAC. -Ed OpenPGP_signature Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Midnight Commander display borked
Hmm... Everything but LC_ALL is UTF-8 mc -a does fix it But I have figured out that I was using xfce4-terminal instead of Konsole or QTerminal, and the problem is only there. I guess the moral of the story is to use mc -a if you are using xfce4-terminal, or just use a different terminal for mc I had installed pv and progress in attempts to get progress meters while transferring files to my new hard drive from the command line over the network, but then realized that mc already had progress meters and worked great. I guess they weren't the culprits after all. I guess I hadn't tried mc in the xfce4-terminal I had inadvertently launched. Unless me installing advcpmv locally to test somehow borked it just for xfce4-terminal On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 9:33 AM Paul Heinlein wrote: > On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Nat Taylor wrote: > > > My midnight commander's output is all weird, it's framed with > > diamonds with question marks in them, The file listings on the left > > hand side have their beginnings obscured due to this. I recently > > installed progress, pv, and rsync. I uninstalled progress, thinking > > that it may have had something to do to it, but to no avail. > > I suspect it's one of two things. > > First, your language settings may be off. What is the output of the > "locale" utility in the terminal you're using to launch mc? > > If it's not set to a unicode variant (e.g., en_US.UTF-8), you'll want > to do that: > > export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > > and try launching mc again. > > Second, if your LANG variable is set to a UTF-8 variant, then the > problem may be that the terminal you're using is not > unicode-compliant. Try "mc -a," which uses simpler glyphs. > > Finally, mc may be trying to use a typeface that doesn't exist on your > system. I don't know Midnight Commander well enough to suggest a fix. > > -- > Paul Heinlein > heinl...@madboa.com > 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Midnight Commander display borked
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020, Nat Taylor wrote: My midnight commander's output is all weird, it's framed with diamonds with question marks in them, The file listings on the left hand side have their beginnings obscured due to this. I recently installed progress, pv, and rsync. I uninstalled progress, thinking that it may have had something to do to it, but to no avail. I suspect it's one of two things. First, your language settings may be off. What is the output of the "locale" utility in the terminal you're using to launch mc? If it's not set to a unicode variant (e.g., en_US.UTF-8), you'll want to do that: export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 and try launching mc again. Second, if your LANG variable is set to a UTF-8 variant, then the problem may be that the terminal you're using is not unicode-compliant. Try "mc -a," which uses simpler glyphs. Finally, mc may be trying to use a typeface that doesn't exist on your system. I don't know Midnight Commander well enough to suggest a fix. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45°38' N, 122°6' W___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
[PLUG] Midnight Commander display borked
My midnight commander's output is all weird, it's framed with diamonds with question marks in them, The file listings on the left hand side have their beginnings obscured due to this. I recently installed progress, pv, and rsync. I uninstalled progress, thinking that it may have had something to do to it, but to no avail. ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
