Re: Title bars much too tall after reinstalling linux on laptop

> > But now the title bars on the laptop are about twice the
> > desired height.

> It seems to be some kind of combination of font, Xorg version
> and window manager version causing it and I've noticed it in
> TWM, too - but not yet in CTWM. Compiling TWM from source
> gives different results than when using the TWM package
> supplied with my distribution.

Could it perhaps be related to your locale, in that CTWM
chooses the font in some particular encoding that has
different metrics?  What happens if you start CTWM
explicitly using the "C" locale, as in

  LANG=C LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C ctwm &

(and whatever else needs to be (un)set)?
Or maybe using Latin-1 (LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1)?