On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

> Probably some large or growing files pointed to by links from /etc/*
> Try without the -r.

Rod,

   Command line returns immediately.

   What's interesting (to me, at least) is that I can put 'export
COLORTERM=rxvt-unicode-256color' in ~/.bash_profile and it's added to the
environment along with -xpm.

[rshepard@salmo ~]$ env | grep -i TERM*
TERM=rxvt-unicode
COLOTTERM=rxvt-unicode-256color
COLORTERM=rxvt-xpm

   The problem I'm trying to resolve is the lost ability of my virtual
terminals (which includes the window in which alpine, my MUA, displays) to
display the UTF-8 character set. I had it for a short time after building
and installing urxvt/rvxt-unicode, but now it's gone again. I also cannot
read the UTF-8 test file in a console (X not running in it). Quite
frustrating.

   The rxvt-unicode author berated me for having a broken distribution or, at
least, terminfo. I gained the ability to view UTF-8 characters when I found
a rvxt-unicode description for /etc/termcap, but that's apparently been
deprecated in favor or /usr/share/termifo/r/rxvt*. Sigh.

   Twenty years after the birth of linux I would think this would not be an
issue for any distribution. Seems to me to be a broad-based need and why
it's not working here is well beyond my experience and knowledge.

Thanks,

Rich

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