hi,

i just recenty installed slackware 9.0
and xterm is giving me grief


i was wonderign if anyone new the command line commands for starting xterm such
that

it has a scrollbar on the left
and also

if i do a command liek man or vi
when i quit those programs
how do i make it so it donest clear the screen
ie, the prompt jstu comes up from the bottom of the screen without removing wat was on teh screen

nobody has any ideas?

about the scroll bar position, u can change it under 'setting' menu
my xterm doesn't clean screen after man or vi
maybe u can check setting menu to control it

gl

man xterm:

-leftbar - left side bar

maybe you have a .bashrc or something, that clears your entry...? (kind of a stretch)

And talking about xterm..

I have problems with the home and and keys: they doesn't work ( they work fine in a rxvt ).

Some ideas?

hmm.. i don't use home and end keys , but they seem to work fine on mine.
why don't u use ctrl-a ctrl-e
it's emacs binding .. faster than hitting home/end

Thank you, good idea ( my habit was to use shift +right arrow or shift +left arrow, i have moreless never used home and end, and a pc )

nope

other useful bindings are
ctrl-r ctrl-s : history lookup
ctrl-/ : undo
alt-b alt-f : word back forward

I was going to use this title for a new thread, but since I found this one in my search.....

I am learning about and using Slackware 9.0 - and WindowMaker. xterm is the default terminal. Is there an xterm configuration app or file? Or, do you have to make any xterm modifications by adding something to the .bash_profile? I haven't been able to glean this info directly from the 'man xterm'.

What I want is a black background instead of a white background and make the font a point size larger.

thanks...

What are you talking about, the man page for xterm is pretty straight forward.

$ xterm -fg white -bg black

That would give you a black background and white default text. I didn't specify the font cause quite frankly there are too many options you can try or to list really.

Maybe just specifying a -fn bold would give you want you need, making it just bold. Check the man pages again, lots of options though.

Right, that will give me a new xterm session after I already started another xterm.

I was talking about the xterm that pops up when I double click the default xterm button on windowmaker?

Most likely in the properties, its just loading xterm with no options passed, just edit it accordingly to open up how you like by adding those options.

I haven't messed with WindowMaker in a long time, might just be able to just right click on the xterm link in the menu and select properties to edit how it starts up xterm.

Therein lies the problem.

I can right click on the title bar and get some options, 'attributes' actually, for killing the title bar and borders, etc. but there's no place in there to set parameters like colors and fonts for that xterm itself.

I'm assuming maybe that this can be set in .bash_profile, or some place. It's not set in /etc/profile. And the .bash_profile I had to create so far only has the PS1 assignment in it. Also, I don't see any place to set this in the "Window Maker Preferences Utility" either. And there isn't an xterm.conf file.

What do I edit?

Thanks...

Do you have some sort of menu editor? If not look in your home directory, specifically a WindowMaker directory and look for a file called "menu" that you can edit.

Within that file you'll find something that looks like this for your xterm entry on the menu itself to start xterm:

"xterm" EXEC xterm &

This is where you'll want to edit and add those options I mentioned before with something like this:

"xterm" EXEC xterm -fg white -bg black -fn bold &

Here ya go, right in the FAQ for windowmaker: http://www.windowmaker.org/faq-chapter3.html#87