Re: [Mlterm-dev-en] A few glitches.

[Andi C. S. <ski...@ya...>]

Hello,

>  If you specify --with-imagelib=gdk-pixbuf, mlimgloader is
> built in mlterm.
>  But it is not possible to build the other configuration
> programs like mlconfig
> into mlterm now.
> 
>  Most of configuration functions should be rewritten from
> scratch to build them
> into mlterm.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean integrating them into mlterm itself, but rather disabling the parts which try to access those features (hence the analogy with disable-dl-ctl) when mlterm is built without support for menus or the image loader.


I have also encountered a weird glitch involving the Unifont typeface (it's a monospace bitmap font which also has a ttf variant, although I only use the pcf version). It concerns the medium shade block character (U+2592) and the program finch (console version of pidgin), which uses it as part of a scrollbar.

Scrolling the contact list will replace parts of the window border with such glyphs. Having a monochrome TERM setting (such as vt100 or linux-m) will only make things worse, as all the character cells adjacent to the scrollbar will all be replaced with medium shade glyphs.


Since I don't know any other program which behaves this way, finch is the only known means to reproduce it. The reason I'm telling you is that it does not happen with urxvt; it only happens with xterm and mlterm. Can you try looking into this? (By the way, any luck with the BCE cursor thing?)

Regards,
Andi Șerbănescu