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I solved this with an environmental variable:

export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=UTF-8

Putting it in my ~/.profile makes it permanent.

I figured this out when I stumbled into section 81.2 here:...

Neo, here you go:
# echo serio1 >/sys/bus/serio/drivers/psmouse/unbind
# echo serio2 >/sys/bus/serio/drivers/psmouse/bind
bash: echo: write error: No such device

By the way, I found a hardware...

That's an excellent idea. It would be a nice solution if I could get it to work.

# echo serio1 >/sys/bus/serio/drivers/psmouse/unbind
# echo serio1 >/sys/bus/serio/drivers/psmouse/bind

The...

I run Devuan ASCII on my T400 laptop. I only use the trackpoint ("nipple mouse"). To me, the touchpad is just a nuisance.

I've discovered (by monitoring output of sudo cat /dev/input/event5) that...

Thank you, Jim. That's a great tutorial.

In case this helps other newbies, I moved the getstring function to a separate file containing custom functions. Also, I changed getstring's logic to go...

Andrew, thank you so much for your beautiful explanation. I understand the issue and can confirm that this works exactly as expected:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
...

YES! That works. Is there a way to generalize this solution (e.g., at the level of the shell), so that things keep flowing down the pipe?

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Thank you, RudiC and...

That's a good idea, but I wanted something more real-time, so I came up with a hack. If I put this in both ~/.kshrc and /root/.kshrc, I get what I want:



prompt_commands()
{
if [ $(id -u)...