curses: xterm vs. linux terminal

[Brian Alexander]

I think you are right. The terminal comes up as gnome-terminal when ps 
is run. I guess it is supposed to provide xterm-like behaviour.

I tried running the xterm from gnome-terminal and after it loaded, I ran 
my box-drawing program. The line characters (ACS_HLINE etc.) still worked.

What is the difference between these two terminal programs? Does the one 
just interact with Gnome a little better?

Many thanks,

Brian.


Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Brian Alexander <brian094 at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
>>Hello;
> 
> 
>>Why is it that the curses special (alt) characters do not display on xterms?
> 
> 
>>Ex:
> 
> 
>>theScreenObj.box(curses.ACS_VLINE, curses.ACS_HLINE)
>>theScreenObj.refresh()
> 
> 
>>This code puts a box with graphical characters around the window when 
>>the terminal is of type linux. When the terminal is of type xterm, 
>>blanks appear where the line characters should be.
> 
> 
>>Is there anyway to fix this behaviour? I find it hard to believe an 
>>xterm does not support the drawing of these simple graphical characters.
> 
> 
> normally it doesn't (linux console doesn't draw lines either).
> 
> I modified XFree86 xterm a few years ago to draw lines when the font
> does not contain them; you're apparently not using XFree86 (or else
> thinking that "rxvt" is "xterm" ;-).
>