Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 02:42:08PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:31:59AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:35:43AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > This, dear reader assumes you are reading in monospace (Zenaan, I > > > know you do, but thi

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-03 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:31:59AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:35:43AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > This, dear reader assumes you are reading in monospace (Zenaan, I > > know you do, but think of those poor souls boun

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:35:43AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > This, dear reader assumes you are reading in monospace (Zenaan, I > know you do, but think of those poor souls bound to a Web interface ;-) They are already in hell. Nothing I can do to save them. > > ← ↑ ↓ → ⋱ ⋰ ⇄ ※ >

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 08:25:40AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: [...] > Tomas - I will try your Liberation font suggestion, but xfce term is > giving me a rock solid "Fixed" experience, AND the fancy character > dancing... for me, this is peak produ

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 08:41:22AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:52:11PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > I'm using font "Fixed SemiCondensed" 8 pt in xfce4-term - and it > > seems xfce4-terminal has some fallback to either some other font(s?) > > but in any case, displa

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:52:11PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: I'm using font "Fixed SemiCondensed" 8 pt in xfce4-term - and it seems xfce4-terminal has some fallback to either some other font(s?) but in any case, displays all Unicode chars I've tried to display, whereas xterm fails on some cha

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:52:11PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 01:38:07PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > A couple of years ago or five, I switched back to xterm (from a random > > walk which included gnome-terminal at so

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 01:38:07PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > A couple of years ago or five, I switched back to xterm (from a random > walk which included gnome-terminal at some point). Xterm had fixed its > UTF-8 problems, could use modern fonts and all that. > > Reading your accounts remim

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:13:47PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 01:33:01PM +0300, Reco wrote: [...] > > --disable-server removes xfce4-terminal ability to talk to DBUS, which > > is intended be used, presumably (too lazy to

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 01:33:01PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 08:11:14PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:19:44AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:58:59PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > > >From t

Re: SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 08:11:14PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:19:44AM +0300, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:58:59PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > > >From terminal A (may be xterm or xfce4-terminal), launch terminals: > >

SOLVED - Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 10:19:44AM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:58:59PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > >From terminal A (may be xterm or xfce4-terminal), launch terminals: > > > > MYVAR="wow - some text!" xterm & > > MYVAR="wow - some text!" xfce4-terminal &

Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-02 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:58:59PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >From terminal A (may be xterm or xfce4-terminal), launch terminals: > > MYVAR="wow - some text!" xterm & > MYVAR="wow - some text!" xfce4-terminal & > > Now from those terminals, run: > > echo $MYVAR > > > In x

Re: xfce4-terminal fails to “pass through” environment variables

2017-10-01 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 02:58:59PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >From terminal A (may be xterm or xfce4-terminal), launch terminals: > > MYVAR="wow - some text!" xterm & > MYVAR="wow - some text!" xfce4-terminal & > > Now from those terminals, r