My reply didn't go to the list the first time... I changed my LANG setting from en_US.UTF-8 to C and now everything works correctly. I'm not well-versed enough in what the LANG variable does to know how that affected things -- I'll have to research some. I'll also have to test and see if using one of the iso8859's might be safe...
Thank you very much! On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 10:20:09PM -0400, Michael O'Donnell wrote: > > > >> After CTWM restarted, my title bars, icon manager, and > >> menus are way oversize compared to the font I have in them. > >> show what happened. There is a screenshot of how it looked > >> before: http://ctwm.free.lp.se/themes/TabularCTWM/terminals.jpeg > >> > >> I can change the font and make things better, but the real > >> question is why did this happen and why can't I use the 8x13 > >> font that I've used all this time? > >> > >> If anyone can provide any insight, I would appreciate it! > > > > > > It is caused by the X windows display resolution effecting > > font selection. > > > > Either reset the DPY settings of the X window server, or select > > a font that does not change size (like a older bitmap font). > > > I somehow don't think so. > > Aauugh! This question is driving me crazy because I had a > similar problem some years ago and cannot remember my solution. > > My foggy memory may be completely wrong but this may > have something to do with UTF handling. Check your various > environment values, particularly your $LANG and the various > $LC* variables. If any of them mention anything related to > UTF you might experiment with non-UTF values. For example: > try setting LANG=C. Here in the US, mine is set to "en_US". > > I'm not sure what the proper long-term solution should be if > that fixes things... -- -M Rident stolidi verba Latina. -Ovid
