[8279] in Athena Bugs
Re: your bug report about xwindows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri Sep 27 01:19:42 1991
From: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 91 01:20:20 -0400
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: danob@Athena.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
I have encountered that problem before, and I believe this to be what
you're experiencing:
When you set your resources (in .Xresources) to something like this:
xterm*geometry: 80x60+0+0
What you're actually setting is the geometry for ALL of xterm's
windows: it's vt100 menu (what you normally see), it's Tekwindow
(which, as far as I know, is used mainly for RS/1, an unsupported
software package) and it's menus. These settings are proportional, as
you may have noticed, when you changed the font with the menu and the
window changed size. To get what you probably *really* want, do this:
(following above example:)
xterm*VT100*geometry: 80x60+0+0
This will set the geometry of the VT100 window, which is what you
normally see. Note that this info is all in the manpage for xterm,
although it may be buried.
Feel free to send me mail if you have any further questions.
-C
