RVP <[email protected]> writes:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2025, Van Ly wrote: > >> >> I checked with Grok on the options for the LANG environment variable and >> expect the next login to be improved. >> > > Don't know what Grok is, but, `locale -a' will list all the valid values for > LANG= and LC_ALL= on Unixes. (NetBSD's locale has a minor bug: it shows some > values which aren't valid locale names in the NetBSD implementation, like > `be', > `ca' or `nl' etc.) > > (And, my LANG= example above has a typo: it's `en_GB.UTF-8', not > `en.GB.UTF-8') > The Grok landing page has a text input field like a search engine. It takes your query and fans out to resources for the answer, the AI model plumbing compresses the result in a way that feels 75% about right at times and you are saved from the ordeal of reading 60 webpages or more. Grok suggested `locale -a' for listing the alternatives and I wasn't sure about that typo. When I unintentionally logged out, intending to restart ctwm, and on login the font shrunk, using suggestions from Grok, I think the following were set in Xresources from somewhere. The lines with `utf8Fonts' look interesting. $ appres XTerm | grep -i font *SimpleMenu*menuLabel.font: -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* *tek4014*fontLarge: 9x15 *tek4014*font2: 8x13 *tek4014*font3: 6x13 *tek4014*fontSmall: 6x10 *fontMenu*font-linedrawing*Label: Line-Drawing Characters *fontMenu*allow-color-ops*Label: Allow Color Ops *fontMenu*font-doublesize*Label: Doublesized Characters *fontMenu*allow-font-ops*Label: Allow Font Ops *fontMenu*font-loadable*Label: VT220 Soft Fonts *fontMenu*allow-mouse-ops*Label: Allow Mouse Ops *fontMenu*font-packed*Label: Packed Font *fontMenu*fontdefault*Label: Default *fontMenu*allow-tcap-ops*Label: Allow Termcap Ops *fontMenu*render-font*Label: TrueType Fonts *fontMenu*font1*Label: Unreadable *fontMenu*font2*Label: Tiny *fontMenu*font3*Label: Small *fontMenu*font4*Label: Medium *fontMenu*font5*Label: Large *fontMenu*font6*Label: Huge *fontMenu*font7*Label: Enormous *fontMenu*allow-title-ops*Label: Allow Title Ops *fontMenu*utf8-mode*Label: UTF-8 Encoding *fontMenu*fontescape*Label: Escape Sequence *fontMenu*allow-window-ops*Label: Allow Window Ops *fontMenu*fontsel*Label: Selection *fontMenu*utf8-fonts*Label: UTF-8 Fonts *fontMenu*allow-bold-fonts*Label: Bold Fonts *fontMenu*utf8-title*Label: UTF-8 Titles *fontMenu.Label: VT Fonts *VT100.utf8Fonts.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font2: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--8-80-75-75-c-50-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font3: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font4: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font5: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font6: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1 *VT100.utf8Fonts.font7: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-m-150-iso10646-1 *VT100.font1: nil2 *VT100.font2: 5x7 *VT100.font3: 6x10 *VT100.font4: 7x13 *VT100.font5: 9x15 *VT100.font6: 10x20 *VT100.font7: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--24-240-75-75-m-150-iso10646-1 XTerm*renderFont: true *IconFont: nil2 -- vl
