From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 30 22:24:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C47B516A4BF for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:24:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B547343FFB for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:24:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h7V5Og3q058768; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:24:42 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:24:41 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jesse Sheidlower Message-ID: <20030831052441.GF7020@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030831051348.GA10168@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030831051348.GA10168@panix.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: xterm setup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 05:24:47 -0000 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