Bug 14104

Summary: text-utils display all wrong when run in gnome
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Telsa Gwynne <hobbit>
Component: gnome-coreAssignee: Havoc Pennington <hp>
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Version: 7.1CC: hobbit
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jpg showing weird display of textmode tools in GNOME none

Description Telsa Gwynne 2000-07-17 09:06:16 UTC 
I should not have seen 'textmode utilities' as a menu
option when running GNOME as non-root, but I did, 
so had to try it out. The display is wrong. This may
be X, GNOME, or textutils itself: I am not competent
to judge. 

jpg attached (I hope). Look at the borders, with YYY
UUU RRR all around the edges.
Comment 1 Telsa Gwynne 2000-07-17 09:07:38 UTC 
Created attachment 1209 [details]
jpg showing weird display of textmode tools in GNOME
Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-07-17 11:04:36 UTC 
This has nothing to do with textutils (that package contains cat, cksum, sort
and stuff).
The screenshot shows the setup program from the setuptool package; since it uses
normal newt library calls to generate its interface, it seems to be a problem
with newt or gnome-terminal.
Comment 3 David Mason 2000-07-17 14:40:43 UTC 
hp - can you see if this is gnome-terminal related?
Comment 4 Telsa Gwynne 2000-07-17 14:54:52 UTC 
Yeah, I'm stupid. I do know what textutils is when I'm awake.
Additional info and suggestion: I changed various themes and
fonts to try and shrink the size of things on my 640x480 display. 
Suggestion is that the font I picked can't display fancy characters 
and is producing the garbage instead.  Font name was 'clean', I 
believe: shows up as
[hobbit@trouble hobbit]$ grep -i font .gnome/*
.gnome/Terminal:font=-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso646.1991-irv
.gnome/gnome-terminal-AwCDcN:font=-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso646.1991-irv
.gnome/gnome-terminal-ak7PLR:font=-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso646.1991-irv
.gnome/theme-switcher-capplet:use_theme_font=true
.gnome/theme-switcher-capplet:font=-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-c-*-iso646.1991-irv

Any help?
Comment 5 Havoc Pennington 2000-07-24 16:12:21 UTC 
I think newt just uses those funny characters if the font lacks the 
border characters. Not much else it could do, maybe there are more attractive 
fallback characters it could use.