Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:20:21 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Rem Roberti <remegius@comcast.net> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: configuring xterm Message-ID: <20050907182021.GA29432@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <431F2340.8020201@comcast.net> References: <431F2340.8020201@comcast.net>
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:28:32AM -0700, Rem Roberti wrote:
> I am a new user, have FreeBSD 5.4 up and running, and am very grateful=20
> to be rid of the blue screen of death. I'm going to have a bunch of=20
> questions, but first things first:
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> 1) When I start X three xterm windows appear. Can I configure it so=20
> that only one appears?
Yes. Copy /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.default to your home
directory, and name it .xinitrc (mind the period at the front);
cp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc.default ~/.xinitrc
The last lines of this file are:
twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
Remove two xterms, so that it becomes:
twm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
If you close the xterm, it will end your X session. If you don't want
that, change it to
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login &
exec twm
> 2) The font size in the xterm window is quite small. How do I change=20
> the font size?
You can do this in seceral ways. First is to use the '-fn' option when
you start an xterm, e.g:=20
xterm -fn '-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-15'
You can use the xlfonts and xfontsel programs to see all available fonts.
A better solution is to define some so-called 'resources' in a file
called .Xresources in your home directory. My .Xresources file has the
following for xterms (lines starting with ! are comments):
! for xterm
XTerm*foreground: white
XTerm*background: #010040
XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-15
XTerm*title: Shell
XTerm*loginShell: True
XTerm*scrollBar: False
XTerm*saveLines: 0
XTerm*ttyModes: erase ^H
XTerm*vt100.translations: #override \
Home: string("\033[1~") \n\
Delete: string("\033[3~") \n\
End: string("\033[4~")
! For use with LC_ALL=3Den_US.UTF-8
! XTerm*font: -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-90-iso10646-1
The resources that can be set for xterm are documented in the xterm
manual, accessible by typing 'man xterm' in a terminal window.
Roland
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