From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 30 23:03:05 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 F1E3616A4BF for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:03:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4148943F3F for ; Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:03:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kellers@njit.edu) Received: from asv18.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (asv18.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.5.172]) by mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.16 (built May 14 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HKG00D24ZG6QF@mta8.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:02:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from latitude (ool-4353d5dd.dyn.optonline.net [67.83.213.221]) h7V61mmW014578; Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:01:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:01:45 -0400 From: T Kellers In-reply-to: <20030831055208.GG7020@dan.emsphone.com> To: Dan Nelson , Jesse Sheidlower Message-id: <200308310201.45679.kellers@njit.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <20030831051348.GA10168@panix.com> <20030831053731.GA12021@panix.com> <20030831055208.GG7020@dan.emsphone.com> 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 06:03:05 -0000 Try eTerm, gnome seems to like it and it is very like the program whose features you need. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Sunday 31 August 2003 01:52, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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"