Re: xterm font is W I D E
> I've got a couple of boxes running hamm. One has KDE as the wm (excuse me,
> "environment"), and the other has FVWM. On both of them, when X starts,
> the default xterm window looks great, but if I open another one, the
> window is very wide and the font is widely spaced, l i k e t h i s. I've
> tried looking for various .rc files and man xterm and the like, but being
> a newbie, I'm not sure I'd see the setting if it was highlighted in
> yellow and was waving a flag.
>
> Anyone know where I can fix second and third and etc xterm windows to look
> like my first one?
xterm takes a lot of parameters, you can run several very different
looking xterms. The manpages for xterm and X explain it.
For a quick fix, take a look at the command that starts the first
xterm. It is probably in .xinitrc if you are starting x from
a command line. (xdm users will find it in some other place)
Use the same command with the same parameters for starting more xterms.
If using a menu - fix the menu so the xterm action has the same
parameters as the first xterm. For details on the menu - read the
docs for whatever window manager you use.
If using the command line - type
the parameters or set up an alias. (man/info bash for info on aliases,
basically: alias xterm="xterm parameter parameter ..."
Helge Hafting
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