In an earlier thread on this mail list I figured out that the reason UTF-8 did not display properly in virtual terminals and alpine is that rxvt does not support UTF-8. And xterm doesn't support some options I use, plus even the developers wrote that it's rather bloated and ancient. So, I went looking for a virtual terminal that supports UTF-8 to replace rxvt. Turns out that aterm, eterm, st, and mrxvt don't. But, urxvt (or rxvt-unicode in terminfo) does. But, there's one major problem that _I_ am experiencing with urxvt that has so far escaped resolution.
A couple of days ago I discovered that there's a urxvt mail list, subscribed, and posted a request for help. That's the only message on that list since I signed up. Apparently it's a ghost mail list, like the Flying Dutchman. One person on the slackware mail list has tried helping, but so far it's not resolved the problem. I've added 'urxvt*loginShell: true' to ~/.Xresources, created ~/.inputrc (including /etc/inputrc) with the line 'set horizontal-scroll-mode On' and exported that file. Logged out and back in each time. urxvt works fine except for not properly wrapping long lines. The result is quite distracting and annoying. I find nothing appropriate on the man pages or the wiki. When I cd to a subdirectory several levels down, or try creating a very long command line, it is improperly wrapped, and also truncated on the left side. Example: [rshepard@salmo ~]$ cd GIS/GRASS/grass-6.5svn/ </configure --with-postgres -- <s --with-sqlite --with-cairo --with-freetype --with-cxx \ > --with-geos=usr/bin/geos-config --with-gdal=/usr/bin/gdal-config \ <ython-config --with-wxwidgets=/usr/bin/wx-config \ With vanilla rxvt I'd see the entire lines. With urxvt this occurs no matter how wide I make the terminal window. I'm hoping the collective expertise here can guide me to a resolution of this problem. I don't know what other virtual terminals for the bash shell support UTF-8 and yet use few resources while being configurable. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
