>> If I look in man pages, then with mrxvt I get funny characters instead of >> what there should be. See attached image. Noticably, these "faults" happen >> with quotes (single & double), hyphens, asterisks. I'm using the SVN >> version, configured with >> "./bootstrap.sh" >> "./configure --enable-everything --disable-debug --with-term=xterm" >> "make" >> "sudo make install" > > Hmm. Try converting the man page to text and seeing what these > characters are: > > man -W ls | head -n 1 | groff -mman -Tascii -P -cbu > /tmp/ls.txt > > Then Vim the file and see if the characters are anything "funny". I get a 66 bytes long file which only contains newlines characters (66 to be precise)...
> Also does the problem happen in xterm? (If yes, it might be charset > related, in which case you're on your own). Nope, xterm is as it should be... >> I'm working on Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. Have hopefully everything >> installed. The same "problem" happened on a system where I had FC4 >> installed (is now replaced by Ubuntu, so not available anymore). >> >> Is there a know solution?!? Oh yeah, when I try to use Bistream Vera >> Sans Mono, the font appears far too wide! Almost as if it has an extra >> space in it. This didn't happen on the FC4 system. Something funny >> there as well! Hence, I'm using DejaVu now, but I prefer the other >> one. > > Try the xftNomFont option. Hmmm... Don't know what happened, but it works now... d'oh |:( Eduard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Materm-devel mailing list Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net
