Pseudographics is shown as letters

[yurivict]

[dromer]

Yup same. I'm connecting to a remote machine and tried locale-gen both there and on my local machine. no luck.

[yurivict]

COLORTERM=truecolor
TERM=xterm-256color

[fleekix]

I'm getting this issue as well.

• Fedora 33
• AwesomeWM
• st and gnome-terminal tested same result

Also tried putting "COLORTERM, and TERM" in my zshrc and that doesn't change anything.
Just some feedback... hopefully somewhat useful.

Thanks

[c0r73x]

Have you tried to compile it with or without CMAKE_USE_WIDE to see if it changes anything?

[MaxGyver83]

Same problem here:

• Ubuntu 18.04
• dwm 6.2
• Alacritty 0.7.1 / st 0.8.4 / gnome-terminal (3.28.2 using VTE 0.52.2) / xterm (330)
• bash / fish

Environment variables:

• COLORTERM=truecolor
• TERM=xterm-256color
• LANG=en_US.utf8
• LC_ALL=en_US.utf8

Tried with make and with USE_WIDE=1 make.

[c0r73x]

Could any of you try the latest commit and see if it helps?

[MaxGyver83]

Still the same problem (tested in Alacritty+fish and gnome-terminal+bash).

[MaxGyver83]

@c0r73x , FYI:

I have grepped the source code for unicode letters and found this:

src/config.cpp
184:    // light      ░ \u2593
185:    // medium     ▒ \u2592
186:    // dark shade ▓ \u2593
187:    // block      █ \u2588

I guess the color bars are made of these symbols. Apparently, my terminal has no problem displaying these characters.

[MaxGyver83]

Another information:

When I replace "░" with "x" or "i"or "-" in ~/.ncpamixer.conf, I see these symbols (x or ior -) in the volume bars. When I use another non-ASCII character ("✘"), I just see these Ms as in the screenshot above.

[dromer]

Could any of you try the latest commit and see if it helps?

On current master 2bf5ce61d217667a62dbed8cc7b5cb1da2d92d5f this is still an issue

[c0r73x]

I guess a possibility to fix this issue would be to add a cmake option to get the latest ncurses version and staticly link it in at compile. Seems to be something strange going on with some distros versions of ncurses?

[diederikdehaas]

On my Debian Bullseye (Sid/experimental also available) arm64 device (Rock64), I have ncurses-dev version 6.2+20201114-2 installed and I'm also seeing this issue.
The Configuration tab does render correctly (afaict).

[sigasigasiga]

i had the same problem.
i use void linux and that was happening because somehow some of my packages were misconfigured. so to solve this i had to run xbps-reconfigure -fa which forcefully reconfigured all packages. you may try to use similar command in your distro, maybe it'll fix it!

sadly i couldn't track down which particular package was misconfigured so if you have many packages that process may take a lot of time

[jeromecst]

The following command worked for me

USE_WIDE=1 make distclean build

[MaxGyver83]

@jeromecst : This fixed it for me! Thank you.

[diederikdehaas]

@jeromecst tip for using USE_WIDE=1 fixed it for me too 🎉 Thanks.

[dromer]

The following command worked for me

USE_WIDE=1 make distclean build

yes!

However it seems that the dropdowns (clicking on a device) are displayed incorrectly.

[MaxGyver83]

However it seems that the dropdowns (clicking on a device) are displayed incorrectly.

Oh, yes, same here! I didn't notice before.

[nuckle]

On Debian sid bookworm the issue is still present. I installed libncurses-dev and libpulse-dev.
Compiled with make . Any unicode symbol turns into something like this, but dropdown menu looks fine.

Preview

ldd ncpamixer | grep curses
libncurses.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.6 (0x00007ff028be2000)

Compiled with make USE_WIDE=True. Unicode works like a charm, but dropdown menu is broken.

Preview

ldd ncpamixer | grep curses
libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007ffb6d676000)
libncurses.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.6 (0x00007ffb6d594000)

apt list --installed | grep ncurses
lib64ncursesw6/unstable,testing,now 6.3+20220423-2 i386 [installed]
libncurses-dev/unstable,testing,now 6.3+20220423-2 amd64 [installed]
libncurses6/unstable,testing,now 6.3+20220423-2 amd64 [installed]
libncursesw6/unstable,testing,now 6.3+20220423-2 amd64 [installed]
ncurses-base/unstable,unstable,testing,testing,now 6.3+20220423-2 all [installed]
ncurses-bin/unstable,testing,now 6.3+20220423-2 amd64 [installed]

locale     
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=en_US.utf8

locale -a
C
C.utf8
en_US.utf8
POSIX

Terminals I tried: st, kitty, alacritty
$TERM values: st-256color, xterm, xterm-256color, linux

[Tonus1]

Hi there
While attempting to provide a buildscript for Slackware-15.0 I ended with this

mkdir -p build
cd build
  cmake \
    -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING="$SLKCFLAGS" \
    -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING="$SLKCFLAGS" \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_MANDIR=/usr/man \
    -DUSE_WIDE=TRUE \
    -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../src
  make
  make install/strip DESTDIR=$PKG
cd ..

HTH

Regards

[birdie-github]

Fedora 40, the same issue.

USE_WIDE=1 make has fixed it for me.