On Monday 01 March 2004 17:22 Glynn Clements's cat walking on the keyboard wrote: > Luca Ferrari wrote: > > I've got a problem displaying those graphics characters that you can find > > (for example) in ncurses based programs (I mean lines, angles, etc.). On > > my red hat 6.2 system they are displayed fine (I mean that if I cat a > > file which contains those character I can see them weel), but on my suse > > 8.2 they are not. In fact they are displayed as strange alphabetic > > characters. I don't know what's the setting to display rightly those > > characters, anyone can help me? > > You have to select a suitable console font with e.g. setfont or > consolechars. The default8x9 and default8x16 fonts usually have the > line graphics characters, while those beginning with "iso" correspond > to the various ISO-8859 encodings (e.g. iso01-* all use ISO-8859-1). > I've tried with default fonts, but they don't display fonts very well. I found that using fonts cp866-8x16 everything is going right, but only for pure console (tty). How to set fonts for virtual console (i.e., graphic terminals such as konsole)? If I try it I get: putfont: KDFONTOP: Operation not permitted Any suggestion? Luca -- Luca Ferrari, fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
