Whitespace On The Command Line

Carlo Graziani carlo at oddjob.uchicago.edu
Thu May 1 23:22:12 CEST 2008


Thomas Orgis wrote:
> Am Thu, 01 May 2008 14:29:16 -0500
> schrieb Carlo Graziani <carlo at oddjob.uchicago.edu>: 
> 
>> Er, thanks.  That's what I needed to know.  Turns out I'd forgottent that I
>> had replaced nedit with a shell script that set an environment variable
>> before invoking the binary
> 
> Eh... LANG to something non-UTF?
> 
> 
> Wondering,
> 
> Thomas.
> 

No, something even more obscure:

export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1

to deal with the messed up scrolling behavior in remote-display
nedit, as per the thread at

http://www.nedit.org/pipermail/develop/2007-August/013425.html

Carlo

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