Rich Shepard wrote: > 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 ^^^^^^^^^ Spelling?
Rod -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
