>> >I'm running a 1.5.2/i386 system.  Tonight I noticed something weird with
>> >my xterms, when I tried to twiddle an option: The menus are physically too
> [...]
>> what window manager are you using?  does the problem change or go away
>> if you switch?
>
>twm.  The same as I've always run for the past ~4 years.  The problem
>doesn't go away when I exit twm.  It also doesn't go away under
>WindowMaker (wmaker).
>
>The problem goes away if I delete the geometry line from .Xdefaults:
>
>*xterm*geometry: 80x58+0+0

ah.  that's the problem.

>...but I can't see anything wrong with that specification.  I tried adding
>a blank line after it, just to make sure that it wasn't an improperly
>terminated line, but that didn't do any good.

the thing is that the glob "*xterm*geometry" also matches
"*XTerm*tekGeometry" (they're case insensitive, afaik), which sets the
size of the popups.  change that to "*xterm*vt100.geometry" and you
should be good to go.

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