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Date:      Mon, 26 Jan 2004 11:37:01 -0500
From:      Jeff Elkins <bsd@elkins.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: garbled ASCII graphics
Message-ID:  <200401261137.01468.bsd@elkins.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040126153001.GA10138@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <200401260555.10979.bsd@elkins.org> <20040126153001.GA10138@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Monday 26 January 2004 10:30 am, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jan 26), Jeff Elkins said:
> > I'm experiencing garbled ASCII graphics under X when running terminal
> > programs such as mc.  Specifically, KDE, haven't tried Gnome.
>
> Make sure you aren't resetting your TERM variable in any shell startup
> scripts.  I believe xterm will provide line-drawing characters for
> fonts that don't include them; not sure about kde's terminal.

Thanks. On a hunch, I tried xterm and ASCII graphics displayed perfectly.  I 
then edited ~/.qt/qtrc and set enableXft=false and the problem went away.

Jeff Elkins



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