[SLE] "Stretched" xterm
SuSE 6.3; 2.2.13; KDE 1.1.2 This is weird. While logged as myself (not root), I have noticed that when I open an xterm window it appears "stretched out". By this I mean the window itself is a long rectangle, going across more that two-thirds of the desktop. The text in the window also appears stretched out, like this: u s e r n a m e # If I resize the window (i.e. make it smaller), the text still appears the same way. Any text I type in also appears in this stretched-out fashion, which make it extremely difficult to read (basically unusable). I just upgraded to 6.3 last week, but this problem actually occurred before w/ 6.2. When it first occurred I thought I had fixed the problem by re-running sax (I had been having problems with sax, and since re-running it successfully seemed to fix things, I thought that was the problem). But I tried that again this time and the problem still exists. This is where it gets weird. If I log in as root, this does not happen. I use the same shortcut icon for both root and user to start the xterm. Under the "execute" tab of the icon all I have is xterm -ls. In my home directory I tried commenting out some lines referring to xterm in one of the config files (either .xsession or .xdefaults, I can't remember which right now). This didn't help - but I noticed that when I started KDE, I had an xterm automatically started on the task bar (fairly normal sized - but the text was still a little stretched out). I think this xterm was generated by the "failsafe" lines in one of the config files. I'm not sure what to try now, except deleting the user and setting up a new one. I'm not confident that this will do any good anyway. Anyone ever seen this before? Any ideas? This is driving me crazy.....:-) TIA, Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 62 T.W. Alexander Dr. Research Triangle Park, NC mdcleary@dg-rtp.dg.com mailto:cleary@dg-rtp.dg.com (919) 248-6033 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Cleary, Mike wrote: I had the same problem and it was because I had set a proportional font for xterm. Tim
SuSE 6.3; 2.2.13; KDE 1.1.2
This is weird. While logged as myself (not root), I have noticed that when I open an xterm window it appears "stretched out". By this I mean the window itself is a long rectangle, going across more that two-thirds of the desktop. The text in the window also appears stretched out, like this: u s e r n a m e # If I resize the window (i.e. make it smaller), the text still appears the same way. Any text I type in also appears in this stretched-out fashion, which make it extremely difficult to read (basically unusable).
I just upgraded to 6.3 last week, but this problem actually occurred before w/ 6.2. When it first occurred I thought I had fixed the problem by re-running sax (I had been having problems with sax, and since re-running it successfully seemed to fix things, I thought that was the problem). But I tried that again this time and the problem still exists.
This is where it gets weird. If I log in as root, this does not happen. I use the same shortcut icon for both root and user to start the xterm. Under the "execute" tab of the icon all I have is xterm -ls.
In my home directory I tried commenting out some lines referring to xterm in one of the config files (either .xsession or .xdefaults, I can't remember which right now). This didn't help - but I noticed that when I started KDE, I had an xterm automatically started on the task bar (fairly normal sized - but the text was still a little stretched out). I think this xterm was generated by the "failsafe" lines in one of the config files.
I'm not sure what to try now, except deleting the user and setting up a new one. I'm not confident that this will do any good anyway. Anyone ever seen this before? Any ideas? This is driving me crazy.....:-)
TIA,
Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 62 T.W. Alexander Dr. Research Triangle Park, NC mdcleary@dg-rtp.dg.com mailto:cleary@dg-rtp.dg.com (919) 248-6033 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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"Cleary, Mike" wrote:
also appears stretched out, like this: u s e r n a m e # If I resize the window (i.e. make it smaller), the text still appears the same way. Any text I type in also appears in this stretched-out fashion, which make it extremely difficult to read (basically unusable).
Check what font you are using. I had this happen when trying out some new fonts with xterm. Are you using xterm or Konsole? I think Konsole looks better. I mean the font the xterm is using. Do you only have one xterm open? If so open a second one and see if it's okay. Nick -- -------------------------------------------------- Nick Zentena "Microsoft has unjustifiably jeopardized the stability and security of the operating system." U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson Nov 5/1999 -------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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