Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!razdan From: razdan@chanakya.oakhill.uucp (Anshuman Razdan) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Building some of the clients Message-ID: Date: 8 Feb 90 22:27:02 GMT References: <9002062324.AA01163@expo.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@oakhill.UUCP Organization: Motorola Inc., SPS CAD, Austin, Texas. Lines: 43 In-reply-to: converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU's message of 6 Feb 90 23:24:27 GMT In article <9002062324.AA01163@expo.lcs.mit.edu> converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Donna Converse) writes: >> I built X11R4 and some clientsfrom the contrib dir on a sun 3/470 >> I ran into following problems : >> >> (a) My xterm menus appear humongous i.e. the menu pane almost covers >> up the whole screen. The twm menu shows up O.K. >> >> (b) I experienced simmmilar problem starting emacs. > Try starting these clients without giving any of your private X resource > specifications to them. Look for geometry specifications in your resource > specs that could be causing this. In particular, change xterm*geometry > to xterm*vt100.geometry. > Donna Converse > converse@expo.lcs.mit.edu ***************** Two questions to make things clear: (a) How do I specify "vt100" on a command line. For example I want to invoke xterm from a shell (or twm menu) xterm -geometry 100x50 is what I would do normally. Also how can I put it in my default file (which would be .XTerm in $HOME) Say for example I want to set geometry of a xterm window called Window1. Do I say XTerm*Window1*vt100.geometry: 30x23. In particular "xterm*vt100.geometry" option is not clear. Sorry for asking a dumb(?) question. (b) Refer to original question (a) I have simmilar problems with all the clients that use athena widgets. For example the initial window of xman or the menu buttons of xmh also have humongous windows. Surprisingly this thng is not noticed on other work stations running the same copy of clients. I do not have a clue as to what environ variable or some thing else I may be setting or not setting. Anshuman Razdan oakhill!chanakaya!razdan@cs.utexas.edu