hakda@nokia.se (H}kan Danielsson) (10/15/90)
In article <YEE.90Oct13131639@pmax14.osf.org> in group comp.windows.x.motif yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: >> I have just installed mwm, and I noticed that when I'm using mwm, the >> xterm menus shrink down to little boxes, while the font stays the > > This is not a Mwm bug. It sounds like you have not installed the > R4 Xterm app-defaults file. The size of the R4 xterm menu defaults to > too small. The R4 app-defaults file fixes this. I have the same problem as the original writer. Where can I obtain "the R4 Xterm app-defaults file"? Thanks for any help. -- Hakan Danielsson hakda@nokia.se
converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (10/15/90)
> I have the same problem as the original writer. Where can I obtain > "the R4 Xterm app-defaults file"? In the source tree, along with the rest of the xterm source code, in the file clients/xterm/XTerm.ad. Each application which has one of these files supplies it along with the rest of the source, in a file name ending in .ad. When installed, the proper filename is with the .ad removed. These application defaults files may have been installed incorrectly or not installed at all. Conventionally, the application defaults files are installed into the directory /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults. Perhaps something in the configuration software failed to do this properly when X was installed on your machine. Donna Converse
dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) (10/16/90)
In article <1990Oct15.085341.28684@nokia.se>, hakda@nokia.se (H}kan Danielsson) writes: |> In article <YEE.90Oct13131639@pmax14.osf.org> in group comp.windows.x.motif |> yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: |> |> >> I have just installed mwm, and I noticed that when I'm using mwm, the |> >> xterm menus shrink down to little boxes, while the font stays the |> > |> > This is not a Mwm bug. It sounds like you have not installed the |> > R4 Xterm app-defaults file. The size of the R4 xterm menu defaults to |> > too small. The R4 app-defaults file fixes this. I didn't see the above article, but I don't think this is correct. I just removed my XTerm app-defaults file, and I don't set any geometries in my own resources, and xterm works completely reasonably. On the other hand, if one has a line like XTerm*geometry: 80x30 in their .Xdefaults file (or whatever means they use to set resources), the xterm menus will be 80x30 *pixels*. The proper geometry resource to set is XTerm*VT100.geometry, which is the geometry of the VT100 widget, and not "all xterm widgets that need geometry". -- ...David Elliott ...dce@smsc.sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce ...(408)944-4073 ..."Whoopee! I'm a human head kabob!" -- Grumpy old man
vincent@cetia110.cetia.fr (Vincent Chuffart) (10/18/90)
Problem: getting undersized xterm menus in R4 (Font is correct). You may also encounter the same problem with a correct app-default file. In your .Xdefaults file, if you had something like: xterm*geometry: 80x24 in R3, this geometry (interpreted as colunms x lines) only applied to the text area of xterm. BUT, in R4, menus are made of widgets too, and the previous resource line matches also for the menus. Then you get 80x24 pixels menus. In R4, you should use: xterm*vt100.geometry: 80x24 And the menus will keep default sizes. P.S: man xterm(1) is the second man page to read after man X(1), it also contains a lot of useful info. -- |Vincent Chuffart | CETIA BP No 244 |+33 (94) 212005 | 83078 Toulon Cedex, France |Ext: 436 | vincent@cetia.cetia.fr inria!cetia!vincent