make menuconfig looks glitchy

rikell42 · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:27 am Post subject: make menuconfig looks glitchy

ok I did a fresh gentoo install not to long ago and everything was very plessent. I love gentoo in a way that is kind of unnatural.

anyway I do have a problem. When I am in X and in xterm and I do make menuconfig everything is great. It looks crisp and works perfectly.

However when I am no in X and just on a console and I do make menuconfig everything is very glitchy. It is like the menu is not displayed correctly on my screen. Thinks seem to be off set and when I move the cursor things get all wacked out.

Is this a common problem? What packages govern this part of linux? Is there anything I can do to fix this?

emerge -avuD world does not fix the problem.

lavacano · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:45 am Post subject:

its utf8 you have it set in like /etc/rc.conf or /etc/conf.d/rc or somewhere /etc/conf.d/consolefont!
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rikell42 · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:39 pm Post subject:

I had UNICODE="yes" in /etc/rc.conf when I should of had UNICODE="no"

thanks for the heads up. and it is good to hear from someone that lives literally a few miles away

I am in west linn.

lavacano · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:22 pm Post subject:

You Know Linus Torvalds lives 21 minutes away in lake oswego haha oregon is the place for linux users

Gentree · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 1:37 am Post subject:

hmm, I seemed to remember that as being a ncurses vs ncursesw prob. Mines a bit the opposite , it is beautiful in console but everything gets underlined if I run form X. Annoying , nothing more.

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lavacano · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 6:52 am Post subject:

this could be a ncurses utf8 bug. in terminal in X even with encoding as utf 8 everything is good. I think its the font the console font has is actually to blame maybe.

bug features:
blue blocks off to either side of text, when selecting different options (just putting the hilight on something else) text is moved and gets rally garbled.

Maybe its also a setting we overlooked when migrating to utf8 too.
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FloatBest · n00b Joined: 14 May 2004 Posts: 44 Location: Germany

I know, it's a rather old thread, but have you tried the following:

Set LC_ALL to "en_US.UTF-8" instead of "en_US.utf8". For me (de_DE) this worked perfectly and un-glitched menuconfig and mc, while still having set UNICODE="yes" in /etc/rc.conf.

FB