Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 02:01:45 -0400 From: T Kellers <kellers@njit.edu> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: xterm setup Message-ID: <200308310201.45679.kellers@njit.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030831055208.GG7020@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20030831051348.GA10168@panix.com> <20030831053731.GA12021@panix.com> <20030831055208.GG7020@dan.emsphone.com>
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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"
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