Re: 132 column display on Ubuntu 9.04

Thanks, I will test xterm as you suggest.  In the meanwhile, I welcome any
insights from all Ubuntu users.  Thanks.

> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Towhid Islam wrote:
> 
> > Thanks for the reply but it was a mistype on my part.  From what I can 
> > gather, I should be using xt5250 and not tn5250.  xt5250 however fails 
> > to run for me and display a number of errors:
> 
> Yes, using xt5250 is preferable as it sets up an xterm for you.  Using 
> tn5250 still works.  Looking at the errors below it looks like something 
> strange is happening with the xt5250 script.  Test this by starting an 
> xterm (you need to use xterm, not some other kind of term like rxterm or 
> gterm or konsole) and then running tn5250 <session-name> inside that 
> xterm (where <session-name> is the name of the session you have defined in 
> $HOME/.tn5250rc or simply use the hostname of the AS/400).
> 
> > Warning: Color name "black" is not defined
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "nil2" to type FontStruct
> > Warning: Cannot convert string "foreground  gray90;lines
> > 1,-1,-1,-1,-1,l:foreground  gray60;lines  -1,0,0,0,0-1" to type
XawDisplayList
> > Warning: Color name "white" is not defined
> > Segmentation fault
> 
> These look like xterm is behaving strangely on your system.  Maybe this is 
> an Ubuntu problem - any other Ubuntu users want to check this?
> 
> James Rich
> 
> if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
> the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
> when you're done reading them :)
>  	- Paul Davis on ardour-dev
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