tag 216231 + moreinfo thanks On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:40:03PM +0200, Torsten Jerzembeck wrote: > When opening any menu while no item has been selected before, the menu > presented is far too small - not even the title is readable. If you > blindly select any item (which is, for whatever reason, possible) and > let the menu close, the size of the menu is right and all items are > visible. Are you sure you're not experiencing the problem described in the FAQ? *) Why do the menus in xterm have the wrong font, size, background color, or foregound color? Because, 99 times out of 100, you're not using X resources correctly. If you have X resource specifications (say, in your $HOME/.Xresources file) that look like this: XTerm*foreground: black XTerm*background: white XTerm*geometry: 200x55-0+20 XTerm*font: 10x20 ...then be aware that you are, in fact, telling the menus, not just the VT100 widget, to use the 10x20 font with white-on-black text. That asterisk is a wildcard, not an ordinary separator. XTerm is doing exactly what you are telling it to do. If you find X resources confusing, don't use them, or read the "RESOURCES" section of the X(7) manual page. If you want to set X resources for xterm that affect only its VT100 widget, then you need to say so: XTerm.VT100.background: white XTerm.VT100.foreground: black XTerm.VT100.font: 10x20 XTerm.VT100.geometry: 200x55-0+20 -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | // // // / / branden@debian.org | EI 'AANIIGOO 'AHOOT'E http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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