Re: [gentoo-user] xterm menu

[lee]

Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com> writes:

> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 1:44 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
>> Jorge Almeida <jjalmeida@×××××.com> writes:
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>> This works for me:
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> Nope. No change.
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>> Perhaps it has to do with a font not being available in the size needed
>> for the menu?
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> Maybe, but I'm out of ideas.
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>>> can't imagine why the menu would require an "usable ISO8859 font"...
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>> Try using another window manager?
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> This implies installing another WM. I'll try fvwm. Never thought the
> problem might be with the WM (openbox, a very unproblematic WM)
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> Thanks

I'm using fvwm.  I was having trouble with xterm once when I still used
Fedora, and though I'm not sure, results might be different with
different WMs (I seem to remember something about that).

Other than that, there's a program called, IIRC, 'map' (available with
Fedora, apparently not with Gentoo) which would show the memory usage of
a process in detail.  It also showed memory being used for fonts.  So if
we can find such a program, we might be able to find out which fonts are
being used by xterm and see if there's a difference.


PS:

Font Path:
  /usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/OTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,built-ins


That's by default.

perl -e 'print "$_\n" foreach(split(/,/, "/usr/share/fonts/misc/,/usr/share/fonts/TTF/,/usr/share/fonts/OTF/,/usr/share/fonts/Type1/,/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/,/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/,built-ins"));' | xargs ls

... shows files in each directory, except 'built-ins', of course.


That brings up the question if there is some alternative to perls split
in coreutils or bash.  The split of coreutils appears to be supposed to
be doing something rather useless?