mlterm for Debian ----------------- In case mlterm does not start, check the following: * mlterm needs kernel compiled with "Unix98 PTY support" (CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS) and "/dev/pts file system for Unix98 PTYs" (CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS). * mlterm needs a font for your locale. If you don't have a font for your locale, please consider Unicode font and "-u" option. I recommend Debian packages of "unifont" and "xfonts-efont-unicode" for Unicode fonts. Debian-specific font configuration: * non-Unicode non-anti-alias fonts: - If you 8bit encodings other than ISO-8859-1, you may want to enable only_use_unicode_font in /etc/mlterm/main file, so that you don't need to install xfonts-*-transcoded packages. Note that this may slow down the startup of mlterm because unicode fonts are 16bit and contain much more glyphs than 8bit fonts do. * Unicode non-anti-alias fonts: - If you have installed 'xfonts-base' package, you will be able to use various sizes of fonts. - If you want to use doublewidth characters (CJK), install 'unifont' package for 16 pixels, or you can use 13 or 18 pixels with 'xfonts-base' package. 'xfonts-efont-unicode' package is also available for 10, 12, 14, 16, and 24 pixels. * Anti-alias fonts: - If you want to use anti-alias fonts, install the following package(s). - 'xfonts-scalable' for ISO-8859-1 (western Europeans without euro). - 'ttf-freefont' for ISO-8859-{2,3,4,5,7,9,10,13,14,15} (most of Europeans including Greek). - 't1-cyrillic' for KOI8-R and KOI8-U (Russian and Uklainian). - 'xfonts-scalable' and 'ttf-kochi-gothic' for EUC-JP (Japanese). - 'xfonts-scalable' and 'ttf-baekmuk' for EUC-KR (Korean). - 'xfonts-scalable' and 'ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp' for BIG5 (traditional Chinese). - 'xfonts-scalable' and 'ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp' for GB2312 (simplified Chinese). - 'ttf-freefont' for UTF-8 singlewidth characters. For UTF-8 doublewidth characters (east Asian), please use one of ttf-{kochi-gothic,baekmuk,arphic-bsmi00lp,arphic-gbsn00lp}. mlterm uses Xft2 library instead of Xft library since version 2.6.3.cvs20030220-1. To register 'ttf-*' fonts or 'scalable-cyrfonts' to Xft2 (so that these fonts can be used from mlterm), execute 'fc-cache' as a root user. Read fc-cache(1) and fontconfig(3) for detail. To use anti-alias font with EUC-KR, BIG5, and GB2312, you may want to edit /etc/mlterm/aafont file. Read the file and you will find how to edit it. * Configuration files: - Configuration files have changed since mlterm version 1.9.44. Please read the manpage for detail. * Indic support: Though mlterm supports Indic scripts, this package is not compiled with Indic support enabled. If you want to use Indic support, please read doc/en/README.iscii in the source package. -- Tomohiro KUBOTA , Mon, 18 Nov 2001 00:00:38 +0900