[CentOS] Gnome-terminal's backslashes look like Ws with a horizontal line through -- how to get a backslash?
William L. Maltby
CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.com
Fri May 9 20:42:17 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:16 -0400, Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've just started trying gnome-terminal (instead of xterm) because of
> its "tabbing" facility. However, I note that with it backslashes appear
> something like a W with a horizontal line through it. Any known way to
> get a backslash to appear as a backslash?
>
> To see what I mean, use gnome-terminal with
>
> echo '\'
>
> in bash, ksh, etc.
You might need to post more info. Here on a box-stock fully updated
CentOS 5 (haven't booted the new kernel yet)
$ uname -a
Linux centos501.homegroannetworking 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Wed Mar 5
11:36:49 EST 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS release 5 (Final)
$ lsb_release -a
LSB
Version: :core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID: CentOS
Description: CentOS release 5 (Final)
Release: 5
Codename: Final
Using GNOME Terminal 2.16.0, all works as expected.
$ echo \\
\
$
>
> Regards,
> Chip Campbell
> <snip sig stuff>
HTH
--
Bill
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