Re: Strange problem with xterm
Re: Strange problem with xterm
- Subject: Re: Strange problem with xterm
- From: David Chopp <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:25:02 -0600
Thanks. Gave it a try. The menu is fixed, but the window is back to the default 80x24 size as if the geometry value is ignored. It's been a long time since I mucked around with this stuff, and I don't remember the proper syntax for this instruction.
Dave
On Jan 12, 2012, at 2:20 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> 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,
> --
> Cameron Simpson <email@hidden> DoD#743
> http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
>
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