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cj360

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[Solved] Finding source of misc characters in new termite windows

https://i.imgur.com/VH3TsQT.png

^ Image of issue, if I open termite from .xinitrc before bspwm there is no characters in it. But once bspwm is running and I open termite each new window has the characters in the left window/termite. It's only visual as commands typed into termite window with the characters arn't affected by it. Clearing the termite window with ctrl+l wipes the characters but then they return on each fresh termite.

Would xorg.0.log show something that's causing the characters to display or something else? I'm not sure what would be/ could be logging this especially when it seems to just be a visual issue.

Last edited by cj360 (2017-12-03 07:04:31)

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Re: [Solved] Finding source of misc characters in new termite windows

Read the Code of Conduct and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cod … s_and_code

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seth

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Re: [Solved] Finding source of misc characters in new termite windows

"#0E1818" is the termite background color; looks like some failed escape code, maybe a locale issue.

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cj360

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Re: [Solved] Finding source of misc characters in new termite windows

Thanks jason, I did forget the rules on pictures since it's been a while since I posted here.

And it would seem that I generated en_US.UTF-8 locale, I never created locale.conf during my install....

Altough setting 

LANG=en_US.UTF-8

in locale.conf and running

# locale-gen

still has the output appearing...

Last edited by cj360 (2017-12-03 01:11:12)

progandy

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Re: [Solved] Finding source of misc characters in new termite windows

That seems to be a common error with VTE terminals. What is your shell and how did you configure it?
Edit: Maybe you should run a search for the color string in your ~/.config directory and dotfiles in your home.

Here is one example: https://github.com/dylanaraps/pywal/issues/69

Last edited by progandy (2017-12-03 02:03:49)

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cj360

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Re: [Solved] Finding source of misc characters in new termite windows

*sighs* Of course I forgot to pass the -t flag. Thats exatily what it was, pywal was causing the output...

Thanks for helping me everyone, even though it was painfully obvious.