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Why are the menus tiny?

Everything seems to work, except that the xterm menus (VT options, fonts, etc.) do not display properly; the menus pop up, but only with a tiny display area in which none of the options are visible (and only part of the menu title is visible).

You have specified the geometry for xterm too high in the hierarchy, and that 24x80 (or whatever the -geometry parameter happens to be) is applying to the menus in pixels. This resource makes the geometry apply to the menus as well as the VT100 widget:

XTerm*geometry: 80x24

while this applies only to the VT100 widget (which is probably what you intended):

XTerm.VT100.geometry: 80x24

or better yet (to allow for the toolbar option, which uses a level of widget hierarchy):

XTerm*VT100.geometry: 80x24

xterm menus too small

Subject: xterm fonts
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007

> http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/xterm.html[]
>
> (this uses ~/.Xresources).

Although nice for simple config but couldn't help me get back the xterm menus. It's again, interesting to note that the menus tended to show up but only the first few letters of the first line or first word of the menu only. Like, "Main", "VT O" etc.

Meanwhile I was able to solve the xterm problem after googling for xterm sites. The first site I visited solved my problem. I used the full .Xresources config provided here and ran xrdb -load ~/.Xresources. That's all. Got back the xterm menus.

http://fak3r.com/2006/02/23/howto-usable-xterm-configuration/

Nice site.

Deboo

xterm menus too small

Subject: xterm fonts - problem solved and able to replicate
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user
Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:18:05 +0530

> Even though I was able to reinstal flubbox after purging it several
> times and after a power failure, fluxbox worked with the menus, now
> still xterm is without a menu. And I am forced to use another term.
> I'm using mrxc\vt because it has tabs and is a lite version too.

I'm replying to my own post since was able to solve this problem and also am able to replicate it as many times as I wish.

I was able to solve the xterm menu vanishing problem with a .Xresources config from fak3r.com as stated in my earlier post.

I was trying some bigger fonts to use with xterm but adding them and then starting xterm would make xterm size very large, more than the screen size. So I edited .Xresources and added a xterm*geometry option to a reasonable geometry size.

The size became okay but all three xterm menus vanish just after adding the geometry option. I remove the geometry option, the menus are back. I add the geometry option, the menus are gone.

Deboo

xterm menus too small

> The size became okay but all three xterm menus vanish just after
> adding the geometry option. I remove the geometry option, the menus
> are back. I add the geometry option, the menus are gone.

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