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sicr0
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 Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 1:31 am Post subject: [SOLVED] tuigreet weird prompt |
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Hi, I'm having a problem with tuigreet.
I installed it with Portage, I ran the command
| Code: | sicro@sicro ~ $ rc-update add display-manager default
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and configured the following files as stated in this section the guide
| Code: | sicro@sicro ~ $ cat /etc/conf.d/display-manager
CHECKVT=7
DISPLAYMANAGER="greetd"
sicro@sicro ~ $ cat /etc/greetd/config.toml
[terminal]
vt = 7
[default_session]
command = "tuigreet --cmd 'dbus-launch sway'"
user = "greetd"
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After booting up, the border of the prompt is made of weird characters, as shown in this picture.
I tried putting vt = 9 (a random higher number) in cat /etc/greetd/config.toml, but it didn't worked. I also tried with "current" and "next" but it became literally unusable.
I'm not sure how to debug this or if I'm doing something wrong. Could someone lead me to the right track?
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mike155
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 11:48 am Post subject: |
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It looks like either wrong locale settings or wrong terminal settings...
Have you configured a UTF8 locale? See: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Localization/Guide
Please post the output of
| Code: | locale -a
locale
cat /etc/env.d/02locale
eselect locale list |
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sicr0
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 5:58 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Mike, I suspected the same thing, but it appears that this is not the case (correct me if I'm wrong)
| Code: | sicro@sicro ~ $ locale -a
C
C.utf8
en_US.utf8
POSIX
sicro@sicro ~ $ locale
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
sicro@sicro ~ $ cat /etc/env.d/02locale
# Configuration file for eselect
# This file has been automatically generated.
LANG="en_US.utf8"
sicro@sicro ~ $ eselect locale list
Available targets for the LANG variable:
[1] C
[2] C.utf8
[3] en_US.utf8 *
[4] POSIX
[ ] (free form)
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mike155
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, that looks good!
The display manager will be started from init. Therefore, it may have different settings.
Please edit file /etc/init.d/display-manager and add the lines below to the function setup_dm():
| Code: | locale > /tmp/test.txt
export | grep TERM >> /tmp/test.txt
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It should look like:
| Code: | setup_dm() {
local MY_XDM
locale > /tmp/test.txt
export | grep TERM >> /tmp/test.txt
MY_XDM=$(echo "${DISPLAYMANAGER}" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
case "${MY_XDM}" in
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Then, restart your computer and post the file /tmp/test.txt. |
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sicr0
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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This is the output of
| Code: | sicro@sicro ~ $ cat /tmp/test.txt
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=
export TERM="linux"
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Really weird, is it maybe that I'm missing a package or some USE flag somewhere that breaks UTF-8 display? |
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mike155
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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That looks good as well!
Let me try it on my machine. I'll come back after that. |
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sicr0
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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Alright, thanks for helping me  |
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mike155
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 7:39 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, it works on my machine. It doesn't seem to be a general problem.
Please post your file /etc/conf.d/consolefont. |
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sicr0
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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This is the content of the file
| Code: | sicro@sicro ~ $ cat /etc/conf.d/consolefont
# The consolefont service is not activated by default. If you need to
# use it, you should run "rc-update add consolefont boot" as root.
#
# consolefont specifies the default font that you'd like Linux to use on the
# console. You can find a good selection of fonts in /usr/share/consolefonts;
# you shouldn't specify the trailing ".psf.gz", just the font name below.
# To use the default console font, comment out the CONSOLEFONT setting below.
consolefont="default8x16"
# consoletranslation is the charset map file to use. Leave commented to use
# the default one. Have a look in /usr/share/consoletrans for a selection of
# map files you can use.
#consoletranslation="8859-1_to_uni"
# unicodemap is the unicode map file to use. Leave commented to use the
# default one. Have a look in /usr/share/unimaps for a selection of map files
# you can use.
#unicodemap="iso01"
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Just in case, these are the services I have activated
| Code: | sicro@sicro ~ $ rc-update show
binfmt | boot
bluetooth | default
bootmisc | boot
cgroups | sysinit
dbus | default
dcron | default
devfs | sysinit
display-manager | default
dmesg | sysinit
elogind | boot
fsck | boot
hostname | boot
hwclock | boot
iwd | default
keymaps | boot
killprocs | shutdown
kmod-static-nodes | sysinit
local | default nonetwork
localmount | boot
loopback | boot
modules | boot
mount-ro | shutdown
mtab | boot
netmount | default
numlock | default
procfs | boot
root | boot
save-keymaps | boot
save-termencoding | boot
savecache | shutdown
seedrng | boot
swap | boot
sysctl | boot
sysfs | sysinit
systemd-tmpfiles-setup | boot
systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev | sysinit
termencoding | boot
udev | sysinit
udev-trigger | sysinit
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Could it be caused by not having the consolefont service activated? |
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mike155
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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Your /etc/conf.d/consolefont looks good.
What about
| Code: | | grep -i unicode /etc/rc.conf |
Does it show
| Quote: | | Could it be caused by not having the consolefont service activated? |
I don't know. It's not activated on my machine either. |
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sicr0
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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It isn't shown! After adding that option it works flawlessly.
Thank you very much for the help Mike  |
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mike155
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2022 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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You're welcome!
Actually, it was your output of 'rc-update show' that helped me. I saw the service "termencoding". I looked at that script and saw that it uses the variable 'unicode' to set the terminal encoding.
Don't forget to remove the echo commands we added to /etc/init.d/display-manager. |
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sicr0
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| Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2022 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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Go that, it's nice to know how you did it, so next time I can give it a shot before creating a post.
I actually forgot to delete those lines, thanks! |
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