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From: dy@mtgzx.att.com (D Yip)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: problem with cmenu option
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Date: 13 Aug 90 20:22:33 GMT
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I would like to change the horizontal spread of menu panes. I follow the
decription in cmenu.help (see below) and it does not seem to work. 

cmenu.PaneSpread: 1.25
    Determines the horizontal spread of menu panes.  Any value greater
    than or equal to 0.0 may be used; the value must be specified as a
    number plus tenths or hundreths (i.e., 1.0 is an appropriate value
    for cmenu.PaneSpread but 1 is not).  A value of 1.0 means that the
    horizontal and vertical spread will be equivalent.  A value less
    than 1.0 will compress the menu panes inward and a value greater
    than 1.0 will expand them outward.

I placed  cmenu.PaneSpread: 3.25 in my .preferences and also in
.Xdefaults and none of these works. What am I doing wrong??   I really
want to change horizontal spread because the menus are too close
together.  When you try to select something from one menu card, there is
a tendency to jump to another card because  you have moved the mouse
pointer to that card by accident.

thanks for your help,

David K. Yip  (dy@mtgzx.att.com)
(201) 957-5544
AT&T Bell Laboratories
MT 3E-437, 200 Laurel Ave
Middletown, NJ 07748