On Tuesday, 27 December 2005 at 8:49:59 -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote on Dec, 27: > > [...] > > > Yes, this has been very useful: I like mrxvt too. It avoids the problem > > that some terminals have of trapping F10 so that you cannot easily get > > out of mc. On the other hand, it shares the other problem of being left > > in reverse video when you do quit mc. Still, that is transient and > > scrolls away. > > I've recently switched from KDE to Xfce and tracking this thread has been > very > useful. I also tried mrxvt. Excellent first impression but it limps in a very > essential feature to my taste: it display ugly-looking glyphs for > line-drawing > characters when you use FreeType fonts and ncurses applications, such as > mutt, > aptitude or mc. konsole, xfce4-terminal and urxvt handle this correctly.
On my box, the line drawing in mutt and aptitude is perfect. It is probably a font encoding issue. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
