Xterm and .Xresources

[Jerry A Clabaugh]

I was playing around, and I found the reason the popups
(apparently) break: If I use xterm*geometry: 70x28, the
popup menus pick up a _pixel_ dimension of 70x28, so they
are too small to be seen.  If I use xterm*vt100.geometry: 70x28,
all is well.

On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, John Chambers,,,781-647-1813 wrote:

> Jerry A Clabaugh <JerryC at world.std.COM> writes:
> 
> 	It seems that specifying xterm*geometry or xterm*font
> 	in a .Xresources or .Xdefaults file causes the xterm
> 	popup menus to break.  I'll assume it's a bug in xterm.
> 	Thanks to both -
> 
> Not true on this Redhat 5.2 system with fvwm2:
> 
> 
> : vi ~/.Xdefaults
> ...
> : xrdb -merge <~/.Xdefaults
> : xrdb -query | egrep -i 'xterm.*(font|geom)'
> xterm*font:     fixed
> xterm_color*font:       fixed
> xterm_color.geometry:   90x30
> : xterm&
> 
> 
> The xterm window that pops up has menus that look and  act  perfectly
> normal.   I wonder if you could give some more details.  What sort of
> system, which wm, etc.
> 

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