[sf-lug] A problem of spacing with terminal

[Alex Kleider]

On 2017-08-13 21:03, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> Hi LUGers,
> 
>     I am having a problem with terminal windows in that the cursor is 
> coming up
> on screen about 5 spaces to the left of where the typed characters will 
> appear.
> This is somewhat annoying.

What happens when you hit CTRL/ALT/F1 and get ?a 'real terminal'?-  just 
curious.
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> 
> When I use su - to go into root the spaces are cut back to about 2 from 
> where
> the characters will appear.
> 
>     I am using PCLinuxOS64 KDE5 2017.07 and while KDE's Plasma 5 is 
> notoriously
> incomplete I have not seen this behavior before and doubt it has to do 
> with the
> version of Plasma 5.
> 
>     And I have gone into the Terminal configuration and see nothing
> which I could
> interpret as having anything to do with the cursor spacing.
> 
>     No answers here and I will simply post the same remarks on Usenet 
> and/or
> PCLinux forums.
> 
>     Bobbie Sellers
> 
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