[ncurses] strange characters with rxvt

[DePriest, Jason R.]

On 5/2/07, Jeff Hawk  wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: On Behalf
> > Of Pavel Tsekov
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 10:43 AM
> > Cc: Didier BRETIN;
> > Subject: RE: [ncurses] strange characters with rxvt
> >
> > On Wed, 2 May 2007, Jeff Hawk wrote:
> >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: On Behalf
> > >> Of Didier BRETIN
> > >> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 5:00 AM
> > >> To: Cygwin at Cygwin dot com
> > >> Subject: [ncurses] strange characters with rxvt
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I have installed ncurses and ncurses-demo on an XP box. I launch the
> > >> demo in a cmd window and in a rxvt. I have strange characters in the
> > >> rxvt, as you can see at
> > >> http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ncursesrxvtiu6.jpg
> > >>
> > >> I use rxvt without X.
> > >>
> > >> Did I miss something in the configuration of rxvt ?
> > >>
> > >
> > > From the rxvt website:
> > > rxvt is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm(1)
> > replacement for users who do not require features such as Tektronix 4014
> > emulation and toolkit-style configurability. As a result, rxvt uses much
> > less swap space.
> > >
> > > Therefore, rxvt is intended for X.
> > >
> > > As you are running it, it does not support the line drawing character
> > sets.
> >
> > This is not true. Please, take a look here:
> >
> >    http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg01021.html
>
> I don't know what you're trying to tell me with this, but rxvt is an XTERM replacement and is therefore intended to run under X.
>
> >
> > 1) Basically you need to get the following font:
> >
> >     http://dessent.net/tmp/luconP.zip
> >
> > 2) Set the TERM environment variable to rxvt-cygwin-native
> >
> > 3) Run rxvt like this:
> >
> >     rxvt -fn "Lucida ConsoleP-14" other-options-here
>
> When I tried this from a CMD window, rxvt still started under X.
>
> --Jeff
>
> --

Cygwin's rxvt package in setup does not require X to run.

>From README: "VT102 terminal emulator for both X and Windows."

Cygwin has rxvt packages that require X but the 'rxvt' package does not.

-Jason

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