Re: Bug#235046: uxterm: fails to display characters
Michael D Schleif <mds@helices.org> wrote:
> Yes, I thought so, too; except that, of the six (6) uxterm's I currently
> have up on this box, one (1) of them displays the example manpage
> correctly. I do not have any idea how this one can be different, since
> I started all six in exactly the same way, and I have not made any
> configuration changes.
> If it displays correctly in one uxterm, I should be able to get it to
> display correctly in *ALL* uxterms. Since I started _all_ of these
> instances with the same KDE icon, and I have not changed configuration
> of any *xterm, I do not understand how this difference can occur.
> Moreover, I do not know how to troubleshoot this.
There are several factors to investigate. I don't know either, but if I
saw something as you describe, I'd check first that the characters sent to
uxterm are identical on each window, using script to capture a typescript
of the data. If that's identical, then at least you have factored out that
part of the environment.
xterm can be compiled with a debug trace (configure --enable-trace).
Assuming that it is reading the same character stream in each window,
I'd expect that all you can gain from this is ensuring that the fonts
in each window are really the same - that appears in the Trace-parent.out
file (along with a lot of other information). Except for the occasional
address-pointer in the trace, the result from each window should be - as
with script's typescript - the same.
If the problem is in the X server or the libraries (which actually draw
the text), that's hard - I haven't been there.
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Thomas E. Dickey
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