CentOS - Mar 2005 - rxvt no longer works

FYI,

If any of you are rxvt users (instead of xterm or gnome-terminal,
etc.), rxvt no longer works completely on FCn/RHEL/CentOS that all use
UTF-8 everywhere. A replacement package rxvt-unicode (executable:
urxvt) will solve the problem.

Symptoms are the problem are: man displays where punctuation
characters are garbled.

Enjoy,

--
 Collins

Dnia 05-03-2005, sob o godzinie 19:41 -0700, Collins Richey
napisa?(a):
> If any of you are rxvt users (instead of xterm or gnome-terminal,
> etc.), rxvt no longer works completely on FCn/RHEL/CentOS that all use
> UTF-8 everywhere.
I love RXVT, but right now I use MGT for its tabs (it''s rxvt clone with
menu and tabs, working 100 times faster than gnome-terminal 2.x and not
looping/crashing unlike gnome-term 2.x :)). My session has
LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8, but of course that won''t work properly like you said.
Here''s what I do:

1. I have a shortcut icon for MGT executing command:
/bin/sh -c ''export LANG=pl_PL;multi-gnome-terminal
--geometry=80x25''

This was necessary to have proper input, changing LANG after program
startup (in terminal window) is not enough.

2. I had to remove /etc/profile.d/lang.*

Now I have perfectly working multi-gnome-terminal. I have FC3 now on my
desktop, I did the same trick with rxvt under RHL9, but found out multi-
gnome-terminal slighly better suits my needs, so I switched and have
been doing it for all the Fedora line.

Lam

On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 11:36:35 +0100, Leszek Matok <Lam@lam.pl> wrote:
> I love RXVT, but right now I use MGT for its tabs (it''s rxvt clone
with
> menu and tabs, working 100 times faster than gnome-terminal 2.x and not
> looping/crashing unlike gnome-term 2.x :)).
Cool. I''ll try it out when I have time.

--
 Collins