Re: Picture showing difference in title bars [progress report with appendix]

It's the font processing. I ran into the same issue before. Try choosing 
different fonts/sizes for the title bar text and see if that helps.


Wayne

On 7/6/20 7:23 PM, Aaron Sloman wrote:
> I wrote:
>
>> Anyhow it is now working with the reduced windows partition and more 
>> linux
>> space, but I seem to have done something to make ctwm use much taller
>> title-bars than previously, and I cannot find anything in .ctwmrc that
>> controls that.
>
> I now attach a composite picture showing the two appearances (taken on
> the two machines, then images combined).
>
> The top half shows the 'good' appearance of an xterm window on my old
> desktop running F29. The lower half shows the 'bad' appearance on the
> laptop running F31.
>
> As far as I know all my relevant settings are the same on both machines,
> and they are running the same version of ctwm. The .ctwmrc entries are
> somewhat redundant -- relics of earlier experiments, but I can't find
> any entries that could be relevant to the display problems.
>
> Relevant entries in .ctwmrc for contents of title bar on both machines 
> are
> exactly the same (left and right title buttons).
>
> As an experiment I tried removing all the title button entries from 
> .ctwmrc
>
> This still leaves three 'built in' items in the title bar:
>
> On the left a built in 'iconize' followed by the window label 'xterm' 
> (the
> window category), automatically inserted, and on the right a built in
> resize button, still oversize.
>
> I've tried removing ctwm and copying over the version built on the F29 PC
> that works perfectly on the PC. But on the laptop it has the same
> problems as the version of ctwm built on the laptop.
>
> I am sure that there was a stage previously when the title bars on the 
> f31
> machine were correct. But there was some other problem that I had to fix
> and after that I had the bad title bars. But restoring the old
> .ctwmrc has not fixed the problem. So it seems that I have changed
> something else indavertently and now I have no idea what it could be!
>
> I mention the basis of a solution below.
>
> ===========
>
> I have just received this response From: [email protected]
>
>> It is probably due to the font used in title.
>>
>> The matched font is not the same between the 2 versions of your 
>> system, or
>> perhaps it changed a little.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Max.
>
> Thanks Max,
>
> I tested that by removing all items in the title specified by me. That 
> left
> only the first and last buttons, both automatically inserted, and the 
> text
> name of the window, which is in a small font, as shown in the attached
> composite image.
>
> ==================
>
> Good news:
>
> I have now discovered that the the source directory for ctwm includes a
> file 'system.ctwm'.
>
> I have tried using that in place of my .ctwmrc. It provides very limited
> functionality, but has so far produced the right kind of title bar.
>
> So I'll see if I can gradually add items to that to restore my required
> functionality.
>
> Aaron
>
> [Image showing the problem attached, in case it gives anyone a clue as to
> what I did wrong.]