Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!smsc.sony.com!dce From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: xterm app-defaults file Message-ID: <1990Oct15.221318.11216@smsc.sony.com> Date: 15 Oct 90 22:13:18 GMT References: <1990Oct15.085341.28684@nokia.se> Sender: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) Reply-To: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) Distribution: comp Organization: Army Recrucification Center Lines: 30 In article <1990Oct15.085341.28684@nokia.se>, hakda@nokia.se (H}kan Danielsson) writes: |> In article 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