On Thu 09 Jul 2020 at 18:29:15 +0200, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> Could it perhaps be related to your locale, in that CTWM
> chooses the font in some particular encoding that has
> different metrics?  What happens if you start CTWM
> explicitly using the "C" locale, as in
> 
>   LANG=C LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C ctwm &
> 
> (and whatever else needs to be (un)set)?
> Or maybe using Latin-1 (LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1)?

I was about to suggest the same thing. I think I had some UTF-8 font
related changes at some point in the past. Mainly because the UTF-8
fonts contain so many more characters, the maximum ascenders and
descenders are a lot bigger than with more limited Latin-1 character
sets.

I think there was even some code change somewhere in ctwm to compensate
for this, but I'm now trying very hard to remember where that was...

(and currently `bzr qlog` has broken on my system... claiming it can't
find a module named sip, even though I have sip for both python 2.7 and
3.7...)

-Olaf.
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