This may not be the ideal forum for this, but let's try. The
KDE terminal emulator kvt on my laptop has developed a problem which
makes it useless. I gather a set of options were saved. When
you start it, the window is 24 lines long and 2 screens wide. The font
is double spaced. Maximise the window and you get the full screen
size, which is correct. The options/size is only set to 80 x24. When
the system returns data, however, it doesn't double space. This double-
spacing by one and not the other leaves the delete & overwrite in a
very confused state, as delete goes back two spaces, but does not
properly erase.
Depending on the window width, lines will begin toward the right, and a
section will go out of the middle. If you tried a "make" command, the
screen would gradually fill with unerased rubbish which fills in the
spaces, and as overwriting is also affected, the screen gradually fills
with gobbledygook. Even using "less" is a disaster.
As a measure, with a full screen (800x600) on the times font, roman
style, size 12, I get 65 characters in a full line, and 11 characters
(22 spaces) before the first character after the prompt.
Enough on the problem. I have tried
1. Replacing the options /opt/kde/share/applnk/Utilities/kvt.kdelnk
with a known good one
2. The Microsoft Solution - Falling on my sword and reinstalling :-(
3. Farting about with the options till I'm blue in the face.
I would like A. A fix.
B. A hotline to a genius, or maybe just a url.
The System is running SuSE 6.1, Kernel 2.2.5, and KDE 1.0
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Regards and TIA,
Declan Moriart
