terminal characters

[Tony Baldwin]

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Verde Denim<tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm a bit baffled by this -
> > I'm running 8.04LTS 64-bit
> > When I type into a terminal, I either get black rectangles where the
> > characters should be, or i get blank spaces, but once I hit return, the
> > commandline shows what I typed in plain text.
> > Has anyone seen anything like this before? I've been running Ubuntu for a
> > while now, and haven't ever seen this type of behavior. While I don't make
> > mistakes in typing the commands that often,
> > it is really irritating not to be able to see what I'm typing (especially
> > for commands like mencoder). I've even noticed it will behave the same way
> > within vi...
> >
> > Any input is appreciated.
> >
> > Jack

I'm wondering what might happen if you simply tried a different terminal.
You don't mention which terminal emulator you are using (plain xterm, gnome-terminal, ??).
Perhaps try urxvt (rxvt-unicode).
I have wonder if it's got something to do with the text encoding, and maybe urxvt
will work, or something.
Just speculation, really.
I haven't seen this problem, of course.

/tony

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