use of graphics characters recently disabled in xterm

[William]

I had this (or something similar) happen some years back probably with 
Konsole on an Kubuntu installation. Probably AMD cpu also.

I cannot remember now what I did to fix. Possibly put the characters 
into mc.ini.

Will


On 09/09/17 10:57, Theodore Kilgore wrote:
>
> I have recently done some upgrades, keeping current with 
> slackware-64-current. And what has happened is that suddenly MC 
> started to print funny characters around the panels instead of 
> printing vertical and horizontal lines. This happens only in an xterm, 
> not in the console terminal where all remains OK. The command mc -a 
> replaces the straight lines with vertical and horizontal dashes, but 
> that does not look nearly so nice.
>
> Oh, I should also say that this happens only on my home machine which 
> has an AMD processor and on-board ATI video. It does not happen on the 
> machine at my office, which is an Intel CPU with on-board Intel 
> graphics. The two machines both run slackware-64-current and as far as 
> I know the two machines have exactly the same list of distro packages 
> installed.
>
> The only thing I can think of is that something in the options for 
> xterm needs to be changed, but I have no clue about what that magic 
> option might be. Or, it could possibly be some library which deals 
> with graphics and is somehow broken on an AMD-based machine.
>
> I am pretty much guessing, of course, but to fix the problem would be 
> nice. Anyone have an idea?
>
> Theodore Kilgore
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