On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 12:44:45AM +1100, Drew Parsons wrote: > Damn, I solved the problem. The one change I did make to my X > configuration, which was niggling at the back of my mind, was when I changed > the fixed font (in /etc/X11/fonts/misc/xfonts-base.alias) to default to > ISO10646-1 encoding to help the transition to UTF-8, instead of ISO8859-1. > And this was precisely the problem. > > Changing fixed back to ISO8859-1 restores the lesstif applications. It would appear, then, that Lesstif is only capable of handling 8-bit fonts. > (I only really need the ISO10646-1 font for xterm, so I've now got that > working properly by putting > xterm*font: fixed-utf-8 > into ~/.xResources). Well, this isn't ideal, either. For one thing, if you use uxterm this shouldn't be necessary. For another, your specification is too broad. XTerm.vt100.font: 10x20 I'd use a specification like that. Finally, the name of the file should be ".Xresources". -- G. Branden Robinson | When dogma enters the brain, all Debian GNU/Linux | intellectual activity ceases. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Anton Wilson http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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