Re: xrdb

[Hugh Saunders <hugh@mjr.org>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 11:33:42PM +1000, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 02:29:09AM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 12:20:46AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote:
> > thanks, i had ~/.Xresources, renaming it Xdefaults got it read by
> > default, thanks :)
> 
> Using 'xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources' would work, too.
> 
> > next prob, now all my xterms are started with nice colours i have a very
> > strange issue. All windows in ratpoison are full screen. Hitting ^t
> > c spawns a new xterm. In the new xterms, when i type vim, sometimes vim
> > takes up the whole xterm but on other occasions it only uses a section
> > of the xterm in the top left hand corner.
> > 
> > I did ^t c, vi, :q!, ^d      10 times to see if there was a pattern to
> > wether vim occupied the whole xterm, i recorded the results:
> > full,topleft,topleft,full,full,topleft,full,topleft,full,full
> > 
> > very strange behaviour, and seemingly without pattern :(
> > 
> > any idea why vim [or mutt] or any console program would occupy the full
> > xterm? note that ls and cat do use the whole of the xterm even when
> > vim/mutt/modconf/etc just use a portion.
> 
> xterm should keep track of it's size and inform the apps running within
> it this fact, and send them a signal when it changes.  I've sometimes
> noticed this happen with Eterm (and xterm); resizing the affected window
> has always fixed the problem, so I assume it's xterm or something
> getting confused for a second.  It's usually only if I resize a window
> while it's still loading, which would seem to be what rat poison does.
> I don't know if you can resize windows in rat poison at all, so this
> might not be any help at all, sorry :)
thanks for comments, i have foundout that its a known bug in ratpoison
and there is a hack to re-inform apps of their size [default bind ^t-l ] 

-- 
hugh