Re: accented characters not showingutomatically started xterm:

> > Run env in both and see the difference.
> > Does the "terminal" (= xterm?) launch a login shell (as in ksh -l),
> > and thus read your ~/.profile?
> >
> > Jan
> >
> env from the automatically started xterm:

What does "automaticaly" mean?
The X session using yoru WM of choise starts that itself?
How exactly is that xterm launched?

> jean-mi@x1:~$ env
> _=/usr/bin/env
> LOGNAME=jean-mi
> WINDOWID=8388620
> WINDOWPATH=5
> XTERM_SHELL=/bin/ksh
> HOME=/home/jean-mi
> _SWM_XTERM_FONTADJ=
> PWD=/home/jean-mi
> SWM_STARTED=YES
> TERM_PROGRAM=tmux
> LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8
> TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=openbsd-7.7
> XTERM_VERSION=XTerm/OpenBSD(395)
> DISPLAY=:0
> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
> ENV=/home/jean-mi/.kshrc
> PATH=/home/jean-mi/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
> TMUX=/tmp/tmux-1000/default,51238,4
> TMUX_PANE=%4
> TERM=screen
> SHELL=/bin/ksh
> _SWM_WS=0
> USER=jean-mi
> XTERM_LOCALE=C
>
> env from the xterm started after:
>
> jean-mi@x1:~$ env
> _=/usr/bin/env
> LOGNAME=jean-mi
> WINDOWID=16777228
> WINDOWPATH=5
> XTERM_SHELL=/bin/ksh
> HOME=/home/jean-mi
> _SWM_XTERM_FONTADJ=
> PWD=/home/jean-mi
> SWM_STARTED=YES
> TERM_PROGRAM=tmux
> LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8
> TERM_PROGRAM_VERSION=openbsd-7.7
> XTERM_VERSION=XTerm/OpenBSD(395)
> DISPLAY=:0
> LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
> ENV=/home/jean-mi/.kshrc
> PATH=/home/jean-mi/bin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
> TMUX=/tmp/tmux-1000/default,51238,5
> TMUX_PANE=%5
> TERM=screen
> SHELL=/bin/ksh
> _SWM_WS=0
> USER=jean-mi
> XTERM_LOCALE=C
> jean-mi@x1:~$
>
> I do not see much differences.

But you have diff(1), right?

> Terms launch tmux.

What's "Terms"?

I am not sure of what you call a Login Shell.

That because you haven't read ksh(1) about -l