Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

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