Re: xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-20 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 11:54:36PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I've got a couple of boxes running hamm. One has KDE as the wm (excuse me, environment), and the other has FVWM. On both of them, when X starts, the default xterm window looks great, but if I open another one, the window is very wide

xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-17 Thread Kent West
I've got a couple of boxes running hamm. One has KDE as the wm (excuse me, environment), and the other has FVWM. On both of them, when X starts, the default xterm window looks great, but if I open another one, the window is very wide and the font is widely spaced, l i k e t h i s. I've tried

Re: xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-17 Thread Helge Hafting
I've got a couple of boxes running hamm. One has KDE as the wm (excuse me, environment), and the other has FVWM. On both of them, when X starts, the default xterm window looks great, but if I open another one, the window is very wide and the font is widely spaced, l i k e t h i s. I've

Re: xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-17 Thread Kent West
At 09:43 AM 12/17/1998 +0100, Helge Hafting wrote: I've got a couple of boxes running hamm. One has KDE as the wm (excuse me, environment), and the other has FVWM. On both of them, when X starts, the default xterm window looks great, but if I open another one, the window is very wide and the

Re: xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-17 Thread Frank Smith
Having an xterm with widely-spaced fonts is usually an indication that you are trying to use a proportional font instead of a fixed-width font. This can confuse the X server if it can't handle proportional fonts or the fon't doesn't have the width information necessary. I don't think most xterms

Re: xterm font is W I D E

1998-12-17 Thread Keith Beattie
Kent West wrote: Anyone know where I can fix second and third and etc xterm windows to look like my first one? I believe that the correct way to do this is to add xterm resource settings to your ~/.Xdefaults (which some people preferr to call ~/.Xresources) file. This is a method of