Re: woody: xterm "clients" (mc, lynx) do not use the xtrem* from Xresources?

[Shaul Karl <shaulk@israsrv.net.il>]

I was not explaining myself well. Allow me to try once more:

I have a 14" screen. When I am using Debian's menu system and issue
	XShells->Xterm
I am getting an xterm whose width is roughly the width of my screen. I believe 
that this is due to my use of
	xterm*Font:           10x20
in my `/.Xresources, which forces the xterm window to be of a certain width.
Until recently, when I used, for example, Apps->System->Top to see the 
processes on the machine I was getting a window which had the size of the 
above xterm. But starting from Yesterday this is not the case. Now top (or 
other text apps) window is much smaller then my xterms. My guess is that for 
some reason the xterm*Font is not used anymore by these apps. How can I fix it 
so that these xterm "clients" will be opened in a window which has the size of 
my xterms?
My window manager is fvwm.

In case you are not familiar with Debian's menu system, it enables one to run 
/usr/bin/top with a few mouse clicks, without the need to open an xterm. That 
is, it automatically opens the xterm and then run top in it.

 

> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Shaul Karl wrote:
> 
> > Contrary to what I was used to, it seems that the xterm "clients" like mc,
> > lynx and Gnuplot do not any more use the xterm resources. Therefore I am
> > getting a smaller window for them.
> 
> mc lynx et al. don't use any X resources. They send text, and the terminal
> emulation is responsible for setting the fonts etc. 
> 
> What happens if you run:
> xterm -fn 10x20
> 
> Is there such a font on the system (xlsfonts -fn 10x20)?
> 
> Also - are X resources case sensitive? Maybe you should use "XTerm*..." ?
> 
> > What should I change in order to fix it?
> > 
> > I am running unstable.
> > 
> > [14:23:32 /tmp]$ cat ~/.Xresources
> > ! ~/.Xresources
> > 
> > AcroRead*geometry:            788x582
> > AcroRead*usesFrontEndProgram: false
> > 
> > Clock*customization:  -color
> > 
> > lyx*height:   573
> > lyx*width:    793
> > 
> > tkinfo.geometry:      109x38
> > 
> > xterm*Font:         10x20
> > xterm*ScrollBar:    true
> > xterm*colorMode:    true
> > xterm*customization:-color
> > [18:14:13 /tmp]$
> > 
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Tzafrir Cohen
> mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
> http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
> 

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