On Oct 26, 2013, at 9:34 AM, Jape Person wrote:
> On 10/26/2013 11:09 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 09:19:32AM -0400, Jape Person wrote:
>>> On 10/26/2013 01:18 AM, Glenn English wrote:
>>>> There are several Debian machines around, and some of them do an odd thing in Aptitude:
>>>>
>>>> lqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqk
>>>> xReally quit Aptitude?x
>>>> x [ Yes ] [ No ] x
>>>> mqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqj
>>>>
>>>> and others don't.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone tell me what I did to make some of them do that to their ncurses boxes?
>>>>
>>>> Aptitude is the only place I've seen this (yet), and I've played with locales and googled and looked at man pages -- no joy. It has something to do with the VT-100 'graphics' chars, I think, but I can't figure out how to fix it...
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Check the Preferences dialog in aptitude. This feature is controlled
>>> by the item:
>>>
>>> [] Prompt for confirmation at exit
>>
>> LOL, I believe he is referring to the strange characters!
>>
>
> OIC. I guess I am the strange character in this case.
>
> The term "locales" should have been a hint.
>
> And I thought I had a chance to be useful -- as something other than comic relief, I mean.
My apologies for being unclear, but comic relief is always welcome.
Yes, it's the strange characters that I'm asking for help with: What makes Aptitude build dialog boxes out of lower case letters (see above in original post, from a Wheezy box) instead of lines (see below, approximately, from a Lenny box)? And how can I get to do lines instead?
┌─────────────────────┐
│Really quit Aptitude?│
│ [ Yes ] [ No ] │
└─────────────────────┘
I looked for the Aptitude prefs before in /etc but couldn't find them. It didn't occur to me that they were in the CTL-T menus. I didn't see anything in there that might help...
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Glenn English
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