Re: xterm font is W I D E

[Frank Smith <frank@sphinx.artair.com>]

Having an xterm with widely-spaced fonts is usually an indication that
you are trying to use a proportional font instead of a fixed-width font.
This can confuse the X server if it can't handle proportional fonts or
the fon't doesn't have the width information necessary.  I don't think
most xterms can handle them, but most try to display them anyway and
take the safe way out to display them by allotting each character a fixed
extra-wide space so the characters won't be drawn overlapping. 
   Since the first window looks good, I would suspect you are either setting
a new font as the default in your resources or the font path is being
changed and it can't find the specified font.

Frank

> At 09:43 AM 12/17/1998 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote:
> >
> >>                                       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.
> >> 
> >> Anyone know where I can fix second and third and etc xterm windows to look
> >> like my first one?
> >
>