Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 02:07:53 -0700 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: Jie Gao <gaoj@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xterm in X.org error with some locales? Message-ID: <1090832873.2081.0.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <41047D51.1020303@cpsc.ucalgary.ca> References: <41047D51.1020303@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 20:41, Jie Gao wrote: > Hi, all > > I switched to Xorg on 5-CURRENT yesterday, following the steps in > /usr/ports/UPDATING and portupgraded everything. Everything works just > fine except one thing: xterm has some error on some particular locales. > The symptom is like this: > > # setenv LANG zh_CN.eucCN > # xterm > > After this, xterm's window only quickly flashed out and then > disappeared. I tried various locales, mainly zh_CN.* ones, finding that > zh_CN.eucCN, zh_CN.GB2312 and zh_CN.GBK all make xterm a splash. > > I cannot tell what's wrong because I can find corresponding error > information nowhere. I checked console, /var/log/messages, > ~/.xsession-error and /var/log/Xorg.0.log. None of them contain relevant > messages. I can't remember for sure, but I think this was part of the issue, which is printed when you build -clients: > If you want to use xterm with locales in a secure manner, luit must be installed > setuid. If you want to do this, hit Ctrl-C now and use "make WITH_SETUID_LUIT=yes" -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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