Randy Schultz <schultz_at_sgi.com> wrote
on Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:30:51 -0500 (CDT):
>
> Subject: FVWM: internal errors/blank menus
>
> Hey all,
>
> I've just installed RH 9.0 on my system. Window managers like Gnome work
> fine. Wanting to get back to fvwm, I've pulled down version 2.4.16 and
> compiled it, no compile errors. Configure showed:
> FVWM Configuration:
>
[...]
>
> When I fire up fvwm, whether with all defaults or with my own .fvwm2rc,
> all windows fire up and work. However once fvwm is up and running any menu
> I bring up is blank. The background is correctly set to whatever Background
> is set to in .fvwm2rc but there's no text. The "hotspots" are there and
> working properly, I just can't see what I'm clicking on.
Randy, I had the same problem. In /etc/sysconfig/i18n change
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
to
LANG="en_US"
Something to do with unicode. Maybe someone here who knows about
such things can explain why fvwm is having issues with UTF-8?
Cheers
Ric
Richard J Lister
Dept of Neuroscience
Georgetown University Medical Center
http://cns.georgetown.edu/~ric/
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Received on Wed Jun 25 2003 - 13:07:40 BST