Re: Strange problem with xterm
Re: Strange problem with xterm
- Subject: Re: Strange problem with xterm
- From: Cameron Simpson <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:20:24 +1100
On 12Jan2012 13:13, David Chopp <email@hidden> wrote:
| Well, I have at least found a solution thanks to you. Here's what I've figured out:
| 1. The settings in .Xdefaults and/or .Xresources were causing the
| menu to be small. Moving them out made the menu big enough for me to
| choose UTF8 fonts. I think the geometry data, which for xterm means #
| of characters was being interpreted as # of pixels for the menu (just
| a guess).
It will have been the .*. in the resource. That causes it to apply to
all subwidgets. Try plain "XTerm.geometry: 80x70" and see if it does the
terminal size without mangling the menu size.
Cheers,
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