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Hello Kevin,

Thanks for your reply. I think I am closer, I figured there was a
setting I was missing somewhere. I attached a screen shot of  what I
am seeing. If you  notice all the text on the left side of the screen
is cut off.

Aaron

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Kevin
Anderson<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm not quite sure what you're referring to, but I did used to have problems with the EDM Properties windows.  As with other Motif applications, the key to customizing EDM's display lies in the .Xdefaults file in your Home folder; editing it might be worth a try.
>
> If this file does not exist in your Home folder, create it and paste in the following lines:
> *fontList: -*-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-75-75-*-*-*-*
> edm*background: gainsboro
> edm*XmScrollBar*shadowThickness: 1
> edm*XmScrolledWindow.shadowThickness: 1
> edm*XmPushButton.shadowThickness: 1
> edm*XmCascadeButtonGadget*shadowThickness: 1
> edm*XmTextField.shadowThickness: 1
> edm*XmTextField.marginHeight: 1
>
> Regards, Kevin Anderson.
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am working with EDM 1.12 to make a control display. Things are going
>> ok, however the various properties windows are not the right size and
>> the titles on the left side of the screen for a lot of the input boxes
>> are cut off. Being that I have not used this program before I have no
>> idea what these boxes control or even what to search for in the
>> manual. If anyone has a suggestion on how to show all the text it
>> would be appreciated.
>>
>> I am using Fedora Core 8, and 7 and this issue happens in a VM windows
>> as well as a regular Linux work environment.
>> I have tried simply resizing the window but the controls in the window
>> do not refresh.
>> There are no scroll bars to show the text.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Aaron
>



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