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Set xterm dimensions using Apple's X11 terminal
Authored by: Graff on Mar 09, '04 11:39:50AM

Here are my usual settings for a terminal window:
xterm -rightbar -sb -sl 2000 -geometry 100x40 -bg black -fg white -fa Monaco -fs 11

This command tells xterm to put the scrollbar on the right, keep a scroll buffer, make it hold 2000 lines, make the window 100 wide by 40 long, make the background black and the foreground (text) white, use Monaco at 11 point.



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Set xterm dimensions using Apple's X11 terminal
Authored by: vancenase on Mar 09, '04 01:40:17PM

how do you get the scrollbar to actually scroll when you put your mouse cursor over it and it makes an arrow? i could never get it to work, unless it's purely for looks.



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Set xterm dimensions using Apple's X11 terminal
Authored by: adrianm on Mar 09, '04 02:41:09PM

It uses a different mouse interface to Mac OS X native windowing system (or indeed almost any other).

Click the left mouse button on scroll bar to scroll down, right to scroll up and middle button to scroll 'here'.

If you don't have a multi-button mouse, you can probably fiddle with certain xdefaults, but if that's the case you're probably better off with Terminal.



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Set xterm dimensions using Apple's X11 terminal
Authored by: mzs on Mar 09, '04 02:54:39PM

There is a bit more to this. The farther down the scrollbar you click, the farther it scrolls, click near the top and it scrolls only a single line. Also with the 'here' scroll, if you hold down the mouse button while dragging in the scrollbar, it drags the view around. You can simulate the second and third mouse buttons with the prop and opt keys if you set the X11 prefs appropriately. If you do not want to use the mouse for scrolling, then Shift+PageUp and Shift+PageDown scroll half pages.



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