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- From: poorman@convex.com (Peter Poorman)
- Subject: Re: xterm popup menu strangeness
- Message-ID: <poorman.714941947@convex.convex.com>
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- References: <1992Aug26.172950.1002@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> <2232@fnnews.fnal.gov>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:59:07 GMT
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- 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.
-
- In <2232@fnnews.fnal.gov> shah@fnsony.fnal.gov (Hemant Shah) writes:
-
- >I had similar problem with xterm. I turned out that I had set the size of
- >xterm in my .Xdefaults file
- >Example:
- > XTerm*geometry: 80x40
-
- >when I removed this line from my .Xdefaults file and added '-geometry' option
- >on command line the problem was gone.
-
- You're on the right track.
-
- When you say "xterm*geometry" you're changing the geometry of EVERYTHING
- in xterm, including the pop-up menus. Since the sizes of the popups are
- in pixels, not characters, they end up very small.
-
- The fix is to specify the geometry for the vt100 widget, rather than a
- global xterm geometry. For example:
-
- XTerm*vt100.geometry: 80x40
-
- This leaves the rest of xterm with the default geometry.
-
- -- Pete Poorman
- poorman@convex.com
-