This actually went to the wrong list, but ...

Steve Willoughby wrote:
>Try setting the -borderwidth option on the frames to something like 2
>or more, and see what happens.  You can abbreviate this to -bd.

Thanks, no joy. It also refuses to set the background color of the frame
(?!). I think that something or other has gone bad with the application
defaults on this display but this should not happen [tm]

thanks, and sorry for totally OT,
Peter

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