waldo kitty wrote:
i'm not sure this is the proper area for this... if it is not, please
point me to the proper list...
i've a ubuntu system that i'm trying to run fp on... X does *not* start
automatically... i'm working from the virtual console(s) 99% of the
time... what i'm seeing and trying to solve is the frames in fp are
showing up as diamond characters... after i got the help stuff loading
properly, i noted that when i switched away from the editor frame, it
showed the single line frame characters and the help frame was all
diamonds... closing the help and returning to the editor switched the
editor frame back to diamonds...
There might be something related to the locale command relevant to
this. As a quick test I've just fired up fp on a Debian (non-x86)
console and framing etc. was OK, I see LANG set to en_GB.UTF-8
I'm uneasy about things like console and X codepages, and the
corresponding keyboard mappings. One problem is that when they're
changed they tend to be system-wide, another is that things like
available founts and codepages can depend on how much of X11 has been
installed. Put another way, your console might be broken /because/ X
isn't installed, not /despite/ it.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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