Re: xterm-menus not working

[Keith Harbaugh <harbaugh@math.georgetown.edu>]

On Sun, 1999-09-05 14:44:47 +0200, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Keith Harbaugh wrote:
> 
> > If you want to do a little further digging on this situation,
> > try the following:
> >    xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm
> > and post the results back.
> > 
> 
> Here are the results:
> $xrdb -q | grep -i ^xterm
> XTerm*termName: xterm-debian
> XTerm*geometry: 80x24
> XTerm.vt100*geometry:   80x24
> XTerm*scrollBar:        true
> Xterm*saveLines:        10000
> XTerm*font:     8x16
> 

I had exactly the same problem you originally described, shrunken xterm-menus,
when I originally used for the geometry resource what the X people call
"loose resource specifications", with the `*',
which modifies the geometry of *all* widgets subordinate to the XTerm class.
But the problem immediately went away when I switched to a
"tight resource specification", namely, 'XTerm.vt100.geometry: whatever',
which only influences the geometry of the XTerm vt100 widget,
but not the geometry of the menu widgets.

In your case, you still have the loose specification
> XTerm*geometry: 80x24
which would likewise be impacting the menu widgets.
You might want to examine several places from which that specification
could be being set:
   /etc/X11/Xsession
   /etc/X11/Xresources/
as well as your ~/.Xresources or ~/.Xdefaults.

Then again, maybe your problem has an entirely different cause,
so I'll bow out at this point.  But it is really nice to have those
menus working, e.g. to be able to adjust the font size and thus the
overall window size to fit the situation.

HTH,
Keith