garbled ASCII graphics

[Jeff Elkins]

On Monday 26 January 2004 10:30 am, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Jan 26), Jeff Elkins said:
> > I'm experiencing garbled ASCII graphics under X when running terminal
> > programs such as mc.  Specifically, KDE, haven't tried Gnome.
>
> Make sure you aren't resetting your TERM variable in any shell startup
> scripts.  I believe xterm will provide line-drawing characters for
> fonts that don't include them; not sure about kde's terminal.

Thanks. On a hunch, I tried xterm and ASCII graphics displayed perfectly.  I 
then edited ~/.qt/qtrc and set enableXft=false and the problem went away.

Jeff Elkins