From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 30 22:52:09 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 5F0F616A4BF for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:52:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD92E43FCB for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:52:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) id h7V5q8rH024839; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:52:08 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:52:08 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jesse Sheidlower Message-ID: <20030831055208.GG7020@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030831051348.GA10168@panix.com> <20030831052441.GF7020@dan.emsphone.com> <20030831053731.GA12021@panix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030831053731.GA12021@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 05:52:09 -0000 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