in many screen shots ive seen,

people have their terminal windows liek aterm xterm etc. without borders and the top bar and without scroll bars

it looks pretty cool that way

can anyone tell me how to in aterm?

thanks guys

Eterm can do it on its own. If you use flux-devel or ice, it's a window manager-specific setting for aterm. In ice, set

aterm.dTitleBar: 0
aterm.dBorder: 0

in winoptions.

In flux, you remove the 'window decorations'. For most any terminal dumping the scrollbar is

aterm*scrollBar: False

in .Xdefaults or .Xresources. The command line option is +sb.

hey digiot

thanks for the reply

what is flux-devel?

i am using fluxbox will this work?
thanks

No problem. I mean the 0.9x versions - the 0.1x versions don't have the capability.

-- Try to clear that up - yep, fluxbox will work if it's in the 0.9 series.

hey digiot,

i succesfully got rid of the scrollbar in fluxbox

now i just need to get rid of the borders

i have tried:

aterm.borderWidth: 0

but that didnt work

any suggestions?

thanks

Should have to do with
aterm -bw 0 (as a command line)
or
aterm*borderWidth: 0 (as an .Xresources line)
but neither seem to work in flux or ice for some reason.

For flux, near as I can figure in that case, it's not doable with 0.1x and with 0.9x it'd be
in the ~/.fluxbox/apps file. There's also a 'toggle decor' bit (define an action in the 'keys' file) and a 'remember' item on the right-click titlebar menu but they seem to be remarkably stupidly thought out - kinda hard to get to the menu to 'remember the decor' when you've just 'toggled off the titlebar decor' that gives you the 'remember menu'. (I'm sure there's an easy way to do it but I don't use flux and didn't feel like figuring it any further than the lines above.) So, yeah, try the apps file. The man page has stuff about most of what flux does.

I have it set up in ~/.fluxbox/keys so I can press the Windows key + F4 to toggle window decorations on and off, just add this line:

Mod4 W :ToggleDecor

whoa thats awesome

thanks digiot

the apps file thing worked

where do i learn more about the apps file commands?

Well, like I say, the man page - 'man fluxbox' and '/APP'. Or the website might have some more stuff. Glad it worked.

cool

now i have one more question

when you do aterm -geometry

i dont know how to actually use geometry , like the format

can you give me a quick rundown?

thanks

Yeah - that one's 'man X' and '/GEO'. Basically "WIDTHxHEIGHT+XOFF+YOFF" where +0+0 is the top left corner. X moves it off vertically (left-right) and Y moves it off horizontally (up-down).