Plot is bad on ubuntu 18.04 about nvtop HOT 4 CLOSED

@Iamanorange exactly, the problem lies in the TERM variable being ansi.
Ncurses thinks that the terminal has no support for the characters used for drawing the plot and replaces it with some "equivalent characters" 😆

I already pointed the problem to @boileaum, who fixed it with the good TERM environment.

from nvtop.

From the characters used in your post, it seems like the program is not using ncursesw.
Can you please check that the return of ldd build/src/nvtop contains libncursesw.

If you updated the repository from a prior version or installed the libncursesw after calling CMake, try deleting the build directory and do a clean build.

Otherwise which terminal emulator are you using and what is the TERM variable value (echo $TERM).

from nvtop.

ldd returns:

ldd build/src/nvtop
	linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe7e8e6000)
	libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007fc6577b9000)
	libnvidia-ml.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnvidia-ml.so.1 (0x00007fc65716f000)
	libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007fc656f40000)
	libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007fc656d16000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc656925000)
	/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc657d67000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc656706000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fc656502000)

so nvtop seems to be actually linked with libncursesw.

TERM contains:

echo $TERM
ansi

from nvtop.

VT100 VT102 VT220 VT320

Linux

ANSI

SCOANSI

Tested on :
Client: Xshell 6 on Win10
Server: Ubuntu 16.04 & Ubuntu 18.04.

The problem is terminal type. ANSI cann't display the plot correctly. Only xterm works in Xshell.

Update: the ldd returns same as boileaum's on my Ubuntu 18.04.

from nvtop.