topic Re: dtterm geometry issues in Operating System - HP-UX

dtterm geometry issues

Dan Holm — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:31:18 GMT

When I create a dtterm with the -geometry option or equivalent X resource, the height is always one line greater than what I specify. Then, if I create a new window from that terminal using Window/New, the height is always three less than what I specify.

So, for example, if I issue:

/usr/dt/bin/dtterm -geometry 100x40

The resulting window is 100x41. If I then use Window/New to create a new window, the geometry of that second window is 100x37.

I've installed every X, CDE, and Motif patch I can find in ITRC, but the behavior doesn't change. Any ideas?

My OS revision as shown by uname is HP-UX B.11.11 U 9000/785.

Thanks,
Dan

Re: dtterm geometry issues

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 14:44:12 GMT

This may be a limitation of fonts or the TERM being used.

I can't see every possible combination working right or accounted for in the driver design.

SEP

Re: dtterm geometry issues

Biswajit Tripathy — Tue, 22 Mar 2005 15:07:45 GMT

Hmm.. interesting.

My observation is a little different tho'. When I run
"dtterm -geometry 100x40", I get a window with
100x40 size (as expected). But when I create
another one using menu option "New", I _always_
get the new windown with same columns, but with
# of lines less than original by 3. So if I open first
window with geometry 80x35, the second one will
have geometry of 80x32. This goes up till line is 49.
After that, executing dtterm with 80x50 (or > 50)
geometry opens a window of geometry 80x49
always. The second window (opened by option
"New") also maximizes at 49.

Another interesting fact is, you don't see any of
these if you open dtterm without "-geometry"
(which defaults to 80x24), but if you open dtterm
with "- geometry 80x24" at command line, problem
shows up.

Appears to be a bug with dtterm.

- Biswajit

Re: dtterm geometry issues

Christian Deutsch_1 — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 04:51:33 GMT

Dear Dan,

As far as window geometries go, I can certainly recommend to download and use the gnome from the HP-UX website. You can configure gnome to save window geometries by window title, which comes in very handy for me.

Kind regards, Christian