On 8/18/07, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. lists@pavri.net wrote:
Now to come to my problem. I inadvertantly hit ctrl-n at the prompt and now the login prompt at the cli is displayed in weird characters. It's like when you type something in wordprocessor and then change to font to wingdings or something.
Does it remain the same even after a reboot?
Okay, problem solved after a reboot.
Thanks,
Sharukh.
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
When you get funny chars in your terminal remember its the display end of the chars thats borked. The keyboard sequence goes in just the same.
So with the wingdings appearing type "reset" at the prompt and enter. Your normal terminal should be back.
More often than not when a process outputs some crap to the terminal ( some bg process ) , it initiates a ctrl sequence which borks the display of characters.
This is more evident when you do a cat on a binary file etc.
regards, C