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> > > > > Since 'workbone' is a non-X application the menu becomes visually
> strange.
> > > > > Is there a way of working around it? ( Just for curiousity: This isn't
> so
> > > > > important after all ) .
> > >
> > > > Ctrl-Alt-F2 gets you a full-screen terminal to run it in, white on
> black.

> I think this will work. Can I  put 'Ctrl-Alt-F2' in a shell script?

I don't know how.  Is this difficult to remember?
To return back, type Ctrl-Alt-F5 (or maybe in BL3 it is -F4).


> > "In order to save space, most of the fonts in BL3 have been stripped of
> > international characters".  (This is the fonts in misc).

> I intend to look for Slackware 4.0 fonts as suggested.
> I need  the international fonts,  with accents ( latin america,  or
> portuguese-br,  which allows me having words like " àçêntüádô ", for
> example).


> > Xvesa has built-in fonts 5x8 and 6x13, and fonts.dir also lists 9x15 11x19
> > 14x24 r14 and r12

I just checked workbone with the default font and most of the characters 
are blanks, but with 6x13 I see upper ASCII (instead of line drawing 
characters that you would see in a console).

The others I tested don't include upper ascii, including built-in 5x8.

To make this the permanent font:

Menu, Edit Settings, JWM menu, rxvt - I think you can just add -fn 6x13 
after the 'rxvt'.

You can use different fonts in console mode.  Ctrl-Alt-F2 to reach console 
(terminal) 2.  You can change fonts using kbd.tgz fonts and setfont. 
(You may need to change the mapping - I did for Cyrillic, using setfont 
iso02.f16 -u /usr/lib/kbd/consolefonts/u to get Latin 2 with the 
characters in the right places).


> > The problem seems to be that in rxvt workbone displays the upper instead
> > of lower ascii characters.  Capital A with umlaut instead of a horizontal
> > line, etc.

The upper ascii characters are what you need to show Portuguese 
characters.  The standard fonts except ones starting in cl have upper 
ascii characters, but Steven omitted them to save space.


> By now I can say I'm satisfied with the aspect "sound".
Good.

I appreciate your help with my hard drive but I think it is physically 
messed up.  PQM is complaining again about drive geometry and it will not 
boot to linux if installed as a slave (from a DOS partition on MA) but I 
can use it by booting to DOS floppy disk and then to linux.

> I'll be working on it a little more and if I can do something useful then
> I'll write back.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Teixeira
>
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