Question about desktop shortcut

Rockitglider7 · 10-25-2015, 10:53 AM

Hello,

I have a Slackware 14 setup with a unix server and I run a program from the unix server, the command line for the shortcut on the slackware desktop is:

xterm -T "SSM Unix Terminal" -fg white -bg darkblue -geometry 80X24+180+220 -fn 12X24 -e telnet 192.168.1.1

I bought new monitors and they are wide screen and the auto selection in Linux selects such a high resolution that I need to make the unix program open in a larger window, My question is can I increase the numbers in the geometry portion of the command line to achieve this, and do I need to change all the numbers, and is there a limit or a certain combination for the resolution to look right on the screen? I'm assuming that (-fg) is the foreground color, & (-bg) is the background color, & (-geometry) is the size and shape of the window, & I'm guessing that (-fn) is the font size, and maybe the color too? So is it just a matter of trial and error to get the desired size? Thanks for any help you can provide.

Sincerely, Kit

Richard Cranium · 10-25-2015, 11:36 AM

What window manager/desktop environment are you using?

Rockitglider7 · 10-25-2015, 12:01 PM

Hello,

I'm using the kde desktop.

Kit

ChrisAbela · 10-25-2015, 12:11 PM

You do not have to guess anything that is documented.

Run

Quote:

man xterm

and read the manual.

Rockitglider7 · 10-25-2015, 01:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisAbela

You do not have to guess anything that is documented.

Run

and read the manual.

Okay,

I read most of that, but didn't understand much of it. I confirmed that bg and fg and fn are what I thought they were, but I didn't see anything about sizing. I does say that there is no default for geometry, but it doesn't tell me how to change it. It does say to see: x(7) but I'm not sure what that means.

Kit

Didier Spaier · 10-25-2015, 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rockitglider7

It does say to see: x(7) but I'm not sure what that means.

It says that to know more you could type
man 7 X
Case matters, so X should be a capital (or upper case) letter in this case.

Rockitglider7 · 10-25-2015, 04:29 PM

Hello,

I read the manual on xterm and tried to resize the window for the program, but it didn't help as the app from the unix server won't change size with the window. I was able to change the resoluton on one of the machines that I rebuilt recently, so it will work like that but the one with older hardware won't keep the desktop size change after restarting the machine. Both have version 14 slackware. Thanks for your help anyway.

Kit

Gerard Lally · 10-25-2015, 08:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rockitglider7

Hello,

I have a Slackware 14 setup with a unix server and I run a program from the unix server, the command line for the shortcut on the slackware desktop is:

xterm -T "SSM Unix Terminal" -fg white -bg darkblue -geometry 80X24+180+220 -fn 12X24 -e telnet 192.168.1.1

I bought new monitors and they are wide screen and the auto selection in Linux selects such a high resolution that I need to make the unix program open in a larger window, My question is can I increase the numbers in the geometry portion of the command line to achieve this, and do I need to change all the numbers, and is there a limit or a certain combination for the resolution to look right on the screen? I'm assuming that (-fg) is the foreground color, & (-bg) is the background color, & (-geometry) is the size and shape of the window, & I'm guessing that (-fn) is the font size, and maybe the color too? So is it just a matter of trial and error to get the desired size? Thanks for any help you can provide.

Just add your chosen xterm settings to ~/.Xresources and merge the changes in when you start kde. Then start xterm with a simple xterm command.

Here are the xterm settings I have in ~/.Xresources:

Code:

! Some programs read this .Xresources file in $HOME and others read the older
! .Xdefaults. The easiest thing to do is symlink .Xdefaults to this file so that
! edits are automatically updated.
!
!    ln -sf ~/.Xresources ~/.Xdefaults
!
! Comments are preceded with an exclamation mark. Some programs will
! report an error if you use the more common hash # symbol instead.
!
! Note that when specifying font sizes the values size and pixelsize
! refer to point size and pixel size respectively.
!
! general settings
!
Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.rgba:rgb
Xft.hinting:true
Xft.hintstyle:hintslight
Xft.antialias:true

! xterm settings
!
! colours - see below
! XTerm*background:#3f3f3f
! XTerm*foreground:#dcdccc

XTerm*vt100*geometry:82x48
XTerm*toolBar:false
XTerm*fullscreen:never
XTerm*termName:xterm-256color
XTerm*saveLines:8192
XTerm*loginShell:false
XTerm*cursorUnderline:false
XTerm*cursorBlink:true
XTerm*visualBell:true
XTerm*urgentOnBell:true
XTerm*internalBorder:2
! Make the Alt key work the way I want in Emacs
XTerm*vt100*utf8:1
XTerm*vt100*eightBitInput:false
XTerm*vt100*metaSendsEscape:true
XTerm*vt100*locale:UTF-8
! Menu settings
XTerm.mainMenu.line1.foreground:	white
XTerm.mainMenu.line2.foreground:	white
XTerm.mainMenu.suspend.foreground:	red
XTerm.mainMenu.continue.foreground:	red
XTerm.mainMenu.interrupt.foreground:	red
XTerm.mainMenu.hangup.foreground:	red
XTerm.mainMenu.terminate.foreground:	red
XTerm.mainMenu.kill.foreground:		red
XTerm.mainMenu.quit.foreground:		yellow
XTerm.mainMenu*borderColor:		white

XTerm.vtMenu.foreground:		white
XTerm.vtMenu*foreground:		#0cf
XTerm.vtMenu*borderColor:		white
XTerm.vtMenu.softreset.foreground:	#0fa
XTerm.vtMenu.hardreset.foreground:	#0fa
XTerm.vtMenu.tekshow.foreground:	#4cc
XTerm.vtMenu.tekmode.foreground:	#4cc
XTerm.vtMenu.vthide.foreground:		#4cc
XTerm.vtMenu.line1.foreground:		white
XTerm.vtMenu.line2.foreground:		white

! Font settings
!
! characters that a good font needs to distinguish:
! 1 l I i
! 0 O D B 8
! n m w
!
XTerm*faceName:xft:DejaVu Sans Mono:pixelsize=16
! XTerm*faceName:xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:pixelsize=12
! XTerm*faceName:xft:Consolas:pixelsize=13
! XTerm*faceName:xft:Lucida Console:pixelsize=13
! XTerm*faceName:xft:Inconsolata:pixelsize=14
! XTerm*faceName:xft:Envy Code R:pixelsize=13
! XTerm*faceName:xft:ProggyCleanSZBP:pixelsize=12
! XTerm*faceName:xft:Terminus:pixelsize=14

! Change colours used by commands like ls because default
! dircolors are unreadable on a dark background. See
! /etc/dircolors for defaults.

! defaults:
! color0       (black)
! color1       (red)
! color2       (green)
! color3       (yellow)
! color4       (blue)
! color5       (magenta)
! color6       (cyan)
! color7       (white)
! color8       (bright black)
! color9       (bright red)
! color10      (bright green)
! color11      (bright yellow)
! color12      (bright blue)
! color13      (bright magenta)
! color14      (bright cyan)
! color15      (bright white)

*background:rgb:33/33/33
*foreground:gray90
*color0:#3f3f3f
*color1:#9d8383
*color2:#60a381
*color3:#dfaf8f
*color4:#7da2c8
*color5:#c073a8
*color6:#70B3B6
*color7:#DCDCDC
*color8:#7BA38F
*color9:#DCA3A3
*color10:#72D5A3
*color11:#F0DFAF
*color12:#94BFF3
*color13:#EC93D3
*color14:#93E0E3
*color15:#FFFFFF

Just create a small script as follows and drop it in ~/.kde/Autostart and your selected xterm changes will be merged whenever you start kde.

Code:

#!/bin/sh
xrdb -load ~/.Xresources

(You can also use the .Xresources file to specify settings for other X apps, namely xpdf, rxvt-unicode, xcalc, and so on.)