On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:51:47PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobīc? wrote:
> Īn data de 13/09/2001, 17:30:04, Dan Espen a scris:
> > Ionel Mugurel Ciobīc? <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"...
>
> Well, I did not configure fvwm too much, I was just using it.
> So, in a way this is a newbie question.
>
> I loked into doc and on the fvwm site, I found nothing similar.
> >
> > > 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 PO?TA -title PO?TA -e rlogin -8 -l tgakic bambam.chem.tue.nl &
> > > ========cut here=========
> >
> > Hmm, that must be ~/bin/mail...
>
> Yes, sorry.
> >
> > > 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.
>
> I access the same command from the fvwm menu and from an xterm.
> Yes, the script have xterm -ls, which I know, it reads my .login
> and .cshrc files.
> >
> > 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.
>
> So the problem is with xterm? I don't think so. If I call the same
> script from rxvt, eterm, konsole, the same happened like with xterm.
> The only way to get it right is via the fvwm menu.
>
> >
> > > 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 ī and ā are accepted in both, while ?, ? or ?
> > > are silently ignored. ī and ā are common in between latin1, latin2
> > > and latin10, ?, ? or ? 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.
> >
>
> Where shall I look for that? I know about the $LANG and $LC_xxxx
> in my shell (in my .cshrc), I put that. How I know which
> environment variables are available for a command launched from
> a fvwm menu?
Just add the command
set > /tmp/environment.$$
to the shell script. This dumps the whole environment of the
script into the file /tmp/.environment.<process_id>. Do this for
both types of xterm and compare the output.
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
--
Dominik Vogt, dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
Reply-To: dominik.vogt_at_gmx.de
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Received on Thu Sep 13 2001 - 18:14:33 BST