Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:52:08 -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: <20030831055208.GG7020@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20030831053731.GA12021@panix.com> References: <20030831051348.GA10168@panix.com> <20030831052441.GF7020@dan.emsphone.com> <20030831053731.GA12021@panix.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 31), Jesse Sheidlower said: > Hmm. I certainly thought I was using xterm, as I recall setting up > the icon to launch xterm, and my .bashrc is setting TERM to > xterm-color rather than gnome-terminal or anything else. And I'm > rather sure that I have the exact same setup on my Linux box, which > is in the office and thus unavailable for me to look at right now. > It's also the case that the font displaying with xterm now looks > totally familiar, and the one displaying with gnome-terminal is > totally unfamiliar and ugly. > > Is it possible that the functional scrollbars, etc., were an addition > of the window manager, and if so is there any way to replicate it > now? Very unlikely. The window manager has no idea what is inside the rectangle it's managing, so the only useful menuitem it could put up would be "close" -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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