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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!gatech!newsfeed.pitt.edu!uunet!newton.burton.frostburg.md.us!newton.burton.frostburg.md.us!not-for-mail From: brian@newton.burton.frostburg.md.us (Brian Burton) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: XFree 3.1 problem Date: 26 Feb 1995 20:16:44 -0500 Organization: none Lines: 28 Message-ID: <3ir95s$11l@newton.burton.frostburg.md.us> References: <katmanduD4LA4t.3vB@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: newton.burton.frostburg.md.us In article <katmanduD4LA4t.3vB@netcom.com>, Keith Tomkins <katmandu@netcom.com> wrote: > I am running Xfree on FreeBSD 2.0. Everything seems ok except when I >try to use the xterm menus. When I hold down the control key and hit one of >the mouse buttons, the menus try to pop up, but only a small portion of it >shows up. Only 2 lines and about one third of the width of a normal menu. >Anybody have any ideas what it might be? I am using the S3 server with an >805 chip. Please email me your ideas. > This problem is related to your definition of the xterm window's geometry. Check your .Xdefaults (or .Xresources) file and see if you have an entry that looks like: xterm*geometry: 80x25 then you should change it to: xterm.vt100.geometry: 80x25 Be sure to update the resource database by restarting X or using xrdb. The problem is that the "*" is a wildcard that matches all of the windows used by xterm. As a result, it also sets the size of the menus! Using the explicit reference to the vt100 window sets only its size. ++Brian