terminal on background

Ha1f · 11-05-2005, 09:58 AM

i wanted to know how to make an xterm with no title bar. I know a bunch of people do this with root tail and put it as there background. i dont want the term to be my background tho, i just want a terminal with no titlebar. i saw a tutorial on this somewhere a while ago, but i can find it anymore. any help is appreciated. thanks.

MensaWater · 11-05-2005, 10:18 AM

Type "man X" for general options of X-Windows (includes many that are applicable to xterm).

Type "man xterm" for items specific to xterm (note that since many options appear in the X manpage they won't appear in the xterm one which is why I recommended reading that one first).

The option to ADD a scroll bar is "-sb". I'm not sure which one suppresses it but the man page should tell you.

MensaWater · 11-07-2005, 07:27 AM

OK now I'm back in front of my Linux box. From the xterm man page:

+sb This option indicates that a scrollbar should not be displayed.

So just typing "xterm +sb" should start an xterm with no scroll bar.