rxvt-unicode urxvt not displaying all characters correctly

SeaHag · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2009 Posts: 32

I just emerged rxvt-unicode, when I run it in my terminal some characters appear correctly and some look like rectangles. Anyone know why or how to fix it? My prompt also is displayed as rectangles.

Nerevar · l33t Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 710

Could be the font you're using doesn't support those characters. media-fonts/terminus-font is a really good unicode console font.

SeaHag · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2009 Posts: 32

This is a fresh Gentoo install. Everything should be default. It seems that the things that aren't displaying correctly are bold in the default xterm. What does bold mean for files and directories?

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Bold doesn't really mean anything in xterm. It's just AFAIK an arbitrary color scheme for different types of file/directories and other things, like in manpages ...

You can always modify/change them if you want in your $HOME/.Xdefaults file.

If you read

SeaHag · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2009 Posts: 32

How come in my xterm some hidden files are blue and bold and some are not. Also, some non hidden files are green and some are bold green. What does all that mean? Why are they displayed differently? It looks like all directories are blue. In urxvt the blue directories and green bold files display as rectangles. BTW I don't have .Xdefaults.

Nerevar · l33t Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 710

See /etc/DIR_COLORS.

Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

You need a unicode fontset like media-fonts/terminus-font as Nerevar suggests, and media-fonts/dejavu is also quite nice.

If you google Xdefaults you'll find plenty of examples you can use to make your own $HOME/.Xdefaults file.

SeaHag · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2009 Posts: 32

I emerged media-fonts/terminus-font but still not working. Any other ideas? How come xterm displays correctly?

hrnick · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:09 pm Post subject:

Any solution to this?

gorkypl · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 440 Location: Kraków, PL

3 years old NECROBUMP!

But, if we are already here - solution to what exactly?
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hrnick · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 5:57 pm Post subject:

I just emerged rxvt-unicode, when I run it in my terminal some characters appear correctly and some look like rectangles. Anyone know why or how to fix it? My prompt also is displayed as rectangles.

All boldface characters seem to be replaced by rectangles.

gorkypl · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 440 Location: Kraków, PL

As it has been said above - you need to emerge font that supports your charset, and then use .Xdefaults or - more preferably - .Xresources to configure urxvt to use that font.

For a popular Terminus font it may look like:

hrnick · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 6:17 pm Post subject:

I've read the thread and tried everything in it without any result, that's why I asked for any (other) solution.

When I try to run rxvt-unicode I get the following error:

gorkypl · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 440 Location: Kraków, PL

How have you specified the font?
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hrnick · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:04 pm Post subject:

In ~/.Xdefaults? Yes.

gorkypl · Guru Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 440 Location: Kraków, PL

But how? The way I posted above?

Also do you have media-fonts/terminus-font installed, and is rxvt-unicode compiled with USE=xft?
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hrnick · Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:41 pm Post subject:

Solved! It was as easy as a missing USE flag, I probably should have taken a look at it first. :)

Thanks for your help!