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- From: envbvs@epb9.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: xterm popup menu strangeness
- Date: 26 Aug 1992 21:06:57 GMT
- Organization: lbl
- Lines: 32
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <25788@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
- References: <1992Aug26.172950.1002@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <21104@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
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- In article <21104@optima.cs.arizona.edu>, azhao@cs.arizona.edu (Qiang Alex Zhao) writes:
- |> In article <1992Aug26.172950.1002@cbnewsj.cb.att.com>, dbw@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.b.wood) writes:
- |> |> On my xterm (direct from the X11R5 distribution) the popup menus don't
- |> |> work correctly. All I get with ctrl-leftbutton is a little box big
- |> |> enough for the "Main" title, and nothing else. The other two popups
- |> |> do the same thing, except no text at all.
- |>
- |> I met the same kind of problem except only those xterm's started from
- |> .xinitrc have the problem, and those started from afterwards (either
- |> from an old xterm, or opened by the window manager) don't have the
- |> problem.
- |>
- |> Any information may be helpful -- thanks.
-
- From the FAQ:
-
- Subject: 29) Why are my xterm menus so small?
-
- You are probably setting the geometry small accidentally. If you give
- a resource specification like this:
- xterm*geometry: 80x24
- then you are asking for all widgets under xterm to have their geometry set to
- 80x24. For the main window, this is OK, as it uses characters for its size.
- But its popup menus don't; they are in pixels and show up small. To set only
- the terminal widget to have the specified geometry, name it explicitly:
- xterm*VT100.geometry: 80x24
-
-
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- Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
- I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.
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