On 2007-03-05, usenet2007@yakshavers.net wrote:

> I've been using ctwm for ten years or so, on Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
> Mac OS X, with pretty much the same dotfiles the whole time. I just
> installed Ubuntu on a laptop, and ctwm is being distinctly strange.
>
> The system: I installed Ubuntu 6.10 from the alternate CD with the
> 'install a command line system' option. I enabled universe in
> /etc/apt/sources.list, installed the xorg and ctwm packages, copied
> over my dotfiles, ran startx --- and got ctwm windows with gigantic
> overgrown titlebars.

Someone reported a similar problem with twm on Mandriva 2007.
Turned out to be caused by LC_CTYPE being set to en_US.UTF-8
instead of en_US.

http://groups.google.com/groups/sear...40one.localnet

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On Mar 6, 5:51 pm, Andre Majorel wrote:
> On 2007-03-05, usenet2...@yakshavers.net wrote:
>
> > I've been using ctwm for ten years or so, on Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD,
> > Mac OS X, with pretty much the same dotfiles the whole time. I just
> > installed Ubuntu on a laptop, and ctwm is being distinctly strange.
>
> > The system: I installed Ubuntu 6.10 from the alternate CD with the
> > 'install a command line system' option. I enabled universe in
> > /etc/apt/sources.list, installed the xorg and ctwm packages, copied
> > over my dotfiles, ran startx --- and got ctwm windows with gigantic
> > overgrown titlebars.
>
> Someone reported a similar problem with twm on Mandriva 2007.
> Turned out to be caused by LC_CTYPE being set to en_US.UTF-8
> instead of en_US.
>
> http://groups.google.com/groups/sear....rob%40one.loc...

Thank you, André. I finally found time to follow up on this just
today. It turns out that setting LC_CTYPE="en_US" didn't fix the
problem,
but it was the clue I needed to chase it down.

LC_CTYPE turns out to be one of the variables GNU locale uses to
support internationalization. These are _not_ environment
variables in the classic sense: they are returned by locale(1)
(and related header files and library functions) on the basis of
the LANG environment variable. If internationalization doesn't
matter to you, or matters less than having your old-school X
programs work does, just set

LANG="C"

That's it. LC_CTYPE and the other locale variables will follow suit.
And ctwm titlebars will be their normal size.

---Alex