Ionel Mugurel =?iso-8859-2?Q?Ciob=EEc=E3?= <tgakic_at_sg10.chem.tue.nl> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I do have a question which I don't know if it is appropriate
> to this list. I am sorry if not. I am not actually a newbie,
> I use fvwm since 4.5 years.
So your subject line should be "not a newbie question"...
> I configured fvwm under Debian to execute some commands
> from my ~/bin directory.
>
> For example small scripts to open a xterm with a rlogin command:
> ========cut here=========
> xhost +bambam.chem.tue.nl
> /usr/bin/X11/xterm -bg darkcyan -fg lightyellow -bd blue -cr magenta -sb -sl
> 1500 -j -ls -fn "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-16"
> -name POªTA -title POªTA -e rlogin -8 -l tgakic bambam.chem.tue.nl &
> ========cut here=========
Hmm, that must be ~/bin/mail...
> In my ~/.fvwm/main-menu.hook I have:
>
> ========cut here=========
> ...
> AddToMenu "/Debian/Hosts" "Hosts%mini-telnet.xpm%" Title
> + "e-mail%mini-mail.xpm%" Exec exec ~/bin/mail
> ...
> ========cut here=========
>
> When I click with the mouse on the "e-mail" I get my xterm running rlogin.
> The same is happening when I simply call the script from an open xterm.
>
> But they don't behave the same. My question is why? Two differences are
> important. The name of the xterm is not the same. The one called from the
> fvwm menu is OK and the other called from a xterm show a square made from
> dashed lines, a minus, a capital B and then the 8bit character. This is
> the same for any 8bit character.
When you start the xterm with -ls it runs you login shell.
(Your .profile or .login.) Perhaps something different is
happening than when you first log in.
The stuff with a capital B indicates a complex string in the
title. You need fvwm2.4 built with enable multibyte to display
that correctly. The client application (xterm in this case)
makes the title string
into a complex string. We've found that Java does that based
on $LANG or one of the other Locale based environment variables.
Perhaps something similar is going on with xterm.
> The second difference is that in the xterm opened from the fvwm menu
> the input of 8 bit characters are OK, while in the other one only few
> are accepted. Example î and â are accepted in both, while ã, þ or º
> are silently ignored. î and â are common in between latin1, latin2
> and latin10, ã, þ or º are not.
>
> I think that somehow the commands executed via the fvwm menu have a
> different environment or something. I can't explain why this is
> happening. Can someone gave me a hint in which direction to look for
> an answer.
Look for differences in environment variables. $LANG and $LCxxxx.
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Received on Thu Sep 13 2001 - 16:33:08 BST