Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-24 Thread raf
* Anh Lai ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: hello, I am new to Blackbox, but not to linux. Some themes come with ansi fonts(.pcf), I have no problems installing them to allow Eterm and Xterm to use them correctly. I do this: cp them to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc as root mkfontdir as root as

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
ok, on the console where blackbox was started do you see: BScreen::LoadStyle(): couldn't load font ? it should name the font it can not find. Nope, there was no such message at all Then we have one of two things occuring: easy case - you are missing blackbox's output

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-14 Thread Vincenzo Colosimo
Hi again! If i understand you correctly, then i changed the environment for every programm i start in Blackbox ? I have tested this and all programms that are capable of returning variables (rxvt, gvim, emacs etc...)are telling me that LC_ALL didn't changed. Even when i insert [exec]

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-14 Thread Vincenzo Colosimo
Hi! Is this happening only under Blackbox or do you have this problem in other wm's as well ? Maybe you have to recompile mutt with the option --enable-locales-fix which force mutt to tread all characters as printable. I hope that helps. Sorry if this is a little bit off-topic. Ciao Vincenzo

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Anh Lai
echo $LANG gives: en echo $LC_ALL gives nothing, it's not set ... On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 09:00:46 -0800 (PST) Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] decided to write: ... On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai wrote: hello, I am new to Blackbox, but not to linux. Some themes come with ansi fonts(.pcf), I

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Tracy Williams
If you're using a 7.x Redhat, you can edit the /etc/sysconfig/i18n file and change the LANG=en variable to LANG=POSIX. I didn't try LANG=C, but either would probably work. Tracy On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 11:15:08 -0800 (PST) Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai wrote: hmmm, I tried LANG=C, and LANG=POSIX and LANG unset, still does not display the font wanted, only a big ugly one. anymore ideas? I just exported the variable, i didnt change the /etc/sysconfig/i18n. you must do this BEFORE you launch X or blackbox. If you

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Anh Lai
I understand that, and that is what i did i dropped to console, and exported to C, POSIX and unset it before starting X ... On Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:06:46 -0800 (PST) Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] decided to write: ... On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai wrote: hmmm, I tried LANG=C, and LANG=POSIX

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Jan-2002 Anh Lai wrote: hmmm, I tried LANG=C, and LANG=POSIX and LANG unset, still does not display the font wanted, only a big ugly one. anymore ideas? I just exported the variable, i didnt change the /etc/sysconfig/i18n. ok, on the console where blackbox was started

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Vincenzo Colosimo
Hi! A while back, there was a similar discussion about the Xserver/font problem, where i mentioned that i changed the artwiz fonts to work correctly with blackbox. So if you would try them out i can send them to you ( since my provider accidently removed my write permissions, i cannot put them

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:14:39PM +0100, Vincenzo Colosimo wrote: However, there may be obsolete, since i have changed the file blackbox-0.61.1/src/i18n.cc. In the line 58 i've changed: locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, ); to: locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, C); After then all fonts are

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Jan-2002 Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 10:14:39PM +0100, Vincenzo Colosimo wrote: However, there may be obsolete, since i have changed the file blackbox-0.61.1/src/i18n.cc. In the line 58 i've changed: locale = setlocale(LC_ALL, ); to: locale =

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:22:31PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: right, because aterm was not a login shell and thus your rc file was ignored. No, bash reads ~/.bashrc on a non-login shell. That's what it's FOR: When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is

Re: getting fonts to work with bb

2002-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Jan-2002 Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 02:22:31PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: right, because aterm was not a login shell and thus your rc file was ignored. No, bash reads ~/.bashrc on a non-login shell. That's what it's FOR: When an interactive shell that