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Bug#988315: xterm menu display garbled

From Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.maint.x
Subject Bug#988315: xterm menu display garbled
Date 2021-05-12 23:30 +0200
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On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 08:38:03AM +0200, Philipp Marek wrote:
> > If that's the case, trying a different window manager (xfce4 for
> > instance)
> > would show if the window manager is the appropriate place to go.
> 
> Sorry.... I'm running LXQT, which uses xfce4 by default:
> 
>    1755 ?        Sl     0:00  \_
> /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/xfconf/xfconfd

Those are utilities -- but the window manager defaults to openbox.
Here's a slice from the output of pstree showing that:

        |-gdm3-+-gdm-session-wor-+-gdm-x-session-+-Xorg---5*[{Xorg}]
        |      |                 |               |-lxqt-session-+-lxqt-globalkeys---3*[{lxqt-globalkeys}]
        |      |                 |               |              |-lxqt-notificati---10*[{lxqt-notificati}]
        |      |                 |               |              |-lxqt-panel---11*[{lxqt-panel}]
        |      |                 |               |              |-lxqt-policykit----4*[{lxqt-policykit-}]
        |      |                 |               |              |-lxqt-powermanag---2*[{lxqt-powermanag}]
        |      |                 |               |              |-lxqt-runner---2*[{lxqt-runner}]
        |      |                 |               |              |-openbox
        |      |                 |               |              |-pcmanfm-qt-+-dragon---15*[{dragon}]
        |      |                 |               |              |            `-12*[{pcmanfm-qt}]
        |      |                 |               |              |-ssh-agent
        |      |                 |               |              |-xmessage
        |      |                 |               |              `-10*[{lxqt-session}]
        |      |                 |               `-2*[{gdm-x-session}]
        |      |                 `-2*[{gdm-session-wor}]
        |      `-2*[{gdm3}]

I set up LXQT this morning, but none of the window managers which it offered
me as a choice were related to XFCE4, so I chose openbox.  xterm seems to
run properly in that (see screenshot).

-- 
Thomas E. Dickey <dickey@invisible-island.net>
https://invisible-island.net
ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net

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Bug#988315: xterm menu display garbled Philipp Marek <philipp@marek.priv.at> - 2021-05-10 13:00 +0200
  Bug#988315: xterm menu display garbled Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> - 2021-05-11 01:50 +0200
  Bug#988315: xterm menu display garbled Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> - 2021-05-11 10:40 +0200
  Bug#988315: xterm menu display garbled Thomas Dickey <dickey@his.com> - 2021-05-12 23:30 +0200

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