Ratpoison 13.37 install menu problem.

[globetrotterdk]

Can you post the contents of your ~/.ratmenu/main.sh file?

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#!/bin/sh

ratmenu -font \
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-1 \
"Terminal" xterm \
"Browser" vimprobable2 \
"Accessories -->" ~/.ratmenu/accessories.sh \
"Multimedia  -->" ~/.ratmenu/multimedia.sh \
"Network     -->" ~/.ratmenu/network.sh \
"System      -->" ~/.ratmenu/system.sh \
"Ratpoison   -->" ~/.ratmenu/ratpoison.sh \
"Exit        -->" ~/.ratmenu/exit.sh

[gapan]

That looks right. Honestly, I have no idea what's wrong. Try changing the font to something else. Run xfontsel to find other fonts.

[globetrotterdk]

That looks right. Honestly, I have no idea what's wrong. Try changing the font to something else. Run xfontsel to find other fonts.

Personally, I think that it has something to do with locale settings. The system is in English, I am using a Danish keyboard, and the locale I set when I installed the system was I believe en_DK. I am for some reason never able to set a working Danish keyboard layout at install and have to reset the layout at first boot. Never had a problem with other versions of Salix, but this time there was a little error that kicked-up in that connection. Do you want to look at the logs?

[globetrotterdk]

Well, I have looked in the log files, but couldn't find anything relevant. Is there a recommendation for changing the font in "menu.sh"?

[gapan]

You can try to remove the

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-font \
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-1 \

part completely out. It would revert to the default font, I don't even remember what that is.

You can also try running a simple ratmenu command from a terminal and see what happens, one like this maybe:

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ratmenu "Terminal" xterm

[globetrotterdk]

You can try to remove the

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-font \
-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso8859-1 \

part completely out.

No luck, it still refuses to work.

You can also try running a simple ratmenu command from a terminal and see what happens, one like this maybe:

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ratmenu "Terminal" xterm

"ratmenu "Terminal" xterm" returns:

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$ ratmenu: fatal: cannot load font 9X15bold

[gapan]

Can you create a new user and try with that one?

[globetrotterdk]

Just did. Same problem.

[gapan]

Really no idea then. If you say you haven't removed anything from a default installation, then I cannot explain this. Maybe if you're right about this being a locale thing, you could try setting it to en_US.utf8 and see if it works.

[globetrotterdk]

Really no idea then. If you say you haven't removed anything from a default installation, then I cannot explain this. Maybe if you're right about this being a locale thing, you could try setting it to en_US.utf8 and see if it works.

Is there a way I can do that from the command line?