On Oct 26, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Jape Person wrote: > On 10/26/2013 11:09 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:19:32AM -0400, Jape Person wrote: >>> On 10/26/2013 01:18 AM, Glenn English wrote: >>>> There are several Debian machines around, and some of them do an odd thing >>>> in Aptitude: >>>> >>>> lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk >>>> xReally quit Aptitude?x >>>> x [ Yes ] [ No ] x >>>> mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj >>>> >>>> and others don't. >>>> >>>> Can anyone tell me what I did to make some of them do that to their >>>> ncurses boxes? >>>> >>>> Aptitude is the only place I've seen this (yet), and I've played with >>>> locales and googled and looked at man pages -- no joy. It has something to >>>> do with the VT-100 'graphics' chars, I think, but I can't figure out how >>>> to fix it... >>>> >>>> TIA >>>> >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Check the Preferences dialog in aptitude. This feature is controlled >>> by the item: >>> >>> [] Prompt for confirmation at exit >> >> LOL, I believe he is referring to the strange characters! >> > > OIC. I guess I am the strange character in this case. > > The term "locales" should have been a hint. > > And I thought I had a chance to be useful -- as something other than comic > relief, I mean.
My apologies for being unclear, but comic relief is always welcome.
Yes, it's the strange characters that I'm asking for help with: What makes
Aptitude build dialog boxes out of lower case letters (see above in original
post, from a Wheezy box) instead of lines (see below, approximately, from a
Lenny box)? And how can I get to do lines instead?
┌─────────────────────┐
│Really quit Aptitude?│
│ [ Yes ] [ No ] │
└─────────────────────┘
I looked for the Aptitude prefs before in /etc but couldn't find them. It
didn't occur to me that they were in the CTL-T menus. I didn't see anything in
there that might help...
--
Glenn English
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