Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:24:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: xterm setup Message-ID: <20030831052441.GF7020@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030831051348.GA10168@panix.com> References: <20030831051348.GA10168@panix.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 31), Jesse Sheidlower said: > I recently upgraded my desktop to Gnome2, and of the various things > that are causing me grief, the biggest is what's happened to my xterm > windows. Now, after the change, it does three things differently and > annoyingly: (1) it defaults to black/colored text on a white > background; (2) it doesn't have a scrollbar of any sort; and (3) > there's no menubar with basic "File"/"Edit" etc. options. > > I can somewhat get around (1) by launching it with "xterm -r", > although while this does display white/colored on black, it also > makes other menus (e.g. those launched with ctrl-[mouse buttons]) > look incomplete. But (2) is the worst; I really need to have > scrollbars with this. I see that there's a toggleable option to > "Enable Scrollbar" that I get to with ctrl-Mouse2, but this isn't a > regular scrollbar that I can click up and down on, with a moveable > thumb, etc., as I used to have before the upgrade and as the > gnome-terminal has now. You must not have been using xterm before, then, since I don't believe you can have any scrollbar other than the standard X-style (RMB scrolls up, LMB scrolls down) bar, and it does not come with a menubar either. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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