Re: [ctwm] title bars are now huge!

2012-08-14 Thread Aaron Sloman
Greetings all -- it's good to see that ctwm is alive and well. For a while I had switched to OpenBox because ctwm had problems, including not being able to handle full screen flash, and some problems with switching desktops. I did manage to get a working environment using OpenBox, with my usual 8

Re: [ctwm] title bars are now huge!

2012-08-14 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Tina Holmboe wrote: > Could this possibly be behind the rather nasty > let's-die-and-bring-X down-with-us crashes I've noticed with > Firefox (alt. VirtualBox) and ctwm? > > Sorry, no further debug information at this time. I'll try > to provoke another. Firefox appear to be quite consistent i

Re: [ctwm] title bars are now huge!

2012-08-14 Thread Michael O'Donnell
Richard Levitte wrote: > monnier> I use a local patch which changes ctwm so as not to use the "maximum > monnier> potential height" of chars, but instead the "average height of > displayed > monnier> chars". I guess I should clean it up and post it here. > > Please do. [ Wow! I'm seeing ema

Re: [ctwm] title bars are now huge!

2012-08-14 Thread Richard Levitte
In message on Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:02:42 -0400, Stefan Monnier said: monnier> I use a local patch which changes ctwm so as not to use the "maximum monnier> potential height" of chars, but instead the "average height of displayed monnier> chars". I guess I should clean it up and post it here.

Re: [ctwm] title bars are now huge!

2012-08-14 Thread Rhialto
On Tue 14 Aug 2012 at 08:02:42 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > The problem is simple: the title bar is sized based on the maximum size > of text that might appear there. With utf-8, this maximum size is > significantly larger because many more chars can be displayed there, and > many more fonts mig

Re: [ctwm] title bars are now huge!

2012-08-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 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... The

Re: [ctwm] title bars are now huge!

2012-08-14 Thread J.O. Aho
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012, Michael George wrote: 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. It had been nice to see this been fixed for

Re: [ctwm] title bars are now huge!

2012-08-14 Thread Michael George
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 o