salix-fluxbox urxvt

[ikke]

Your fluxbox edition is very much OK! Thank you!

Have two problems :
1. thought the 'u' in urxvt meant unicode. But the terminal is not showing utf-8. How to handle that problem?
2. long commando lines are scrolling horizontally. How to get 'folding'?

And a question : how to change the font and fontsize?

Thank you for kind attention.

[ax]

Hello
Rxvt unicode used for setting ~/.Xdefaults , in this file you can set:

Font and fontsize and possibly the scrolling bar. You can move up and down with keys:

SHIFT + PgUP/PgDOWN ... it's default set.

The language is independent of rxvt and urxvt. You can set this launching the application with the required locales. Example:

LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 application

or set variable:

export LANG=it_IT.UTF-8

[ikke]

Rxvt unicode used for setting ~/.Xdefaults , in this file you can set:

Font and fontsize and possibly the scrolling bar.

Thank you . Any place I can find the exact font names for ~/.Xdefaults?

The language is independent of rxvt and urxvt. You can set this launching the application with the required locales.

Agree. The problem is not he language. The problem is urxvt not showing utf-8 encoded files the normal way. I have : LANG=en_US.UTF-8

The last question remains : long commando lines are scrolling horizontally. How to get 'folding'? The vertical scrolling is OK.

Thank you,

[ax]

Search:

URxvt*font:
URxvt.boldFont:

My urxvt show encoded ...if don't work, you can set in .Xdefaults:

URxvt.imLocale: en_US.UTF-8

I do not understand what you mean... perhaps you're referring to the buffer to be understood as it does on "nano -w" ?

[ikke]

I do not understand what you mean... perhaps you're referring to the buffer to be understood as it does on "nano -w" ?

Am so sorry.

The URxvt font problem is solved.

In spite of 'URxvt.imLocale: en_US.UTF-8' and 'export LANG=en_US.UTF-8' the termimal is still showing utf8 encoded files as 'latin1'. And what amazes me most is that a normal xterm is showing the utf8 encoded files as it should.

The last question remains : long commando lines are scrolling horizontally. Which means you do not see the beginning of your command line. How to get 'folding'? Do not know how I should put it in a better way.

Thank you.

[ikke]

In spite of 'URxvt.imLocale: en_US.UTF-8' and 'export LANG=en_US.UTF-8' the termimal is still showing utf8 encoded files as 'latin1'. And what amazes me most is that a normal xterm is showing the utf8 encoded files as it should.

This problem is solved for the time being. Value of the TERM variable was :
'rxvt-256color'. Has to be 'rxvt-unicode'.
Wondering if 'rxvt-unicode-256color' is also possible.

For the time being I am using 'export TERM=rxvt-unicode'. Where is that variable set originally? Which is the best place to change it globally? (/etc/profile?)

[ax]

yes, /etc/profile for global change or you can set variable in ~/.bashrc

It's strange. I'm sure why I do not have the same problems.

Thanks for your reporting.

[Duncan_Idaho]

Wondering if 'rxvt-unicode-256color' is also possible.

AFAIK urxvt already supports 256 colors

[ax]

i repeat: this is very strange message ... but make a note for required inspections and evaluate the transition to rxvt-unicode-256color.

I still do not have these problems...

[ikke]

i repeat: this is very strange message ... but make a note for required inspections and evaluate the transition to rxvt-unicode-256color.

I still do not have these problems...

Indeed, very strange!

But the problem is not yet solved.
I only get utf-8 rendering of utf-8 encoded files in a terminal created by 'urxvt &' in another terminal. And even then with 'less' I get

Code: Select all

WARNING: terminal is not fully functional

Confirm
1. 'URxvt.imLocale: en_US.UTF-8' in .Xdefaults
2. 'export LANG=en_US.UTF-8' in $HOME/.bashrc
3. 'export 'rxvt-unicode' in /etc/profile

Any idea?