Whenever I launch xterm, I get a geometry of 80x25, because I set
so in my X resource. However, whenever I pin-point where I want to
put it, with -geometry +/-x+/-y, I get a geometry of 80x24 -- i.e.,
one line shorter than normal. Why is that?

Proof:

$ xterm &

$ xwininfo | grep geometry
-geometry 80x25+137+137

$ xterm -geometry +14+14 &

$ xwininfo | grep geometry
-geometry 80x24+14+14

Anybody knows how to fix it?

Thanks

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* Tong * wrote:
>Whenever I launch xterm, I get a geometry of 80x25, because I set
>so in my X resource. However, whenever I pin-point where I want to
>put it, with -geometry +/-x+/-y, I get a geometry of 80x24 -- i.e.,
>one line shorter than normal. Why is that?
>
>Proof:
>
>$ xterm &
>
>$ xwininfo | grep geometry
> -geometry 80x25+137+137
>
>$ xterm -geometry +14+14 &
>
>$ xwininfo | grep geometry
> -geometry 80x24+14+14
>
>Anybody knows how to fix it?

A variation of this problem came up a couple of weeks ago in cwx.

Xterm (for some unknown reason) thinks it can do a better job at
resource management than the Xt wm shell widget -- trouble is that it
can't. So, if you repeated your experiment on a properly written Xt
app, you would get the behaviour that you expected.

I think Thomas Dickey, the xterm maintainer, is looking at the problem.

Kip Rugger wrote:

> A variation of this problem came up a couple of weeks ago in cwx.

> Xterm (for some unknown reason) thinks it can do a better job at
> resource management than the Xt wm shell widget -- trouble is that it
> can't. So, if you repeated your experiment on a properly written Xt
> app, you would get the behaviour that you expected.

> I think Thomas Dickey, the xterm maintainer, is looking at the problem.

yes.


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