Thanks for the help. I'll read up more an X resources.<div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:24 AM, Massimo Rimondini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rimondin@dia.uniroma3.it">rimondin@dia.uniroma3.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<tt>Dear Ashish,<br>
<br>
the standard way to affect xterm options is via X resources, namely a
repository kept by the X server containing application-specific
settings that every program can access to get its own configuration.<br>
<br>
You can set these resources inside a file ~/.Xresources, and fetch them
without restarting X by issuing a command like:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><tt>xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources</tt></blockquote>
<br>
The full list of xterm-related X resources can be found in the man page
of xterm. A good starting point can be found here:
<a href="http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Customizing_your_xterm" target="_blank">http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Customizing_your_xterm</a>.<br>
In order to affect the settings you mention, you would put the
following in your ~/.Xresources:<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">xterm.*.scrollBar: true<br>
! What do you mean by "lines buffered"? The scrollback buffer?<br>
! Then, here it is:<br>
xterm.*.saveLines: 4096<br>
xterm.*.scrollTtyOutput: false<br>
! You didn't ask for the following, but repositioning to the<br>
! bottom upon keypress is probably useful given that the above<br>
! is disabled.<br>
xterm.*.scrollKey: true<br>
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After running "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources" (or restarting X), all your
xterms will have these settings always applied.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Massimo.<br>
<br>
<br>
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On 07/20/2010 11:57 PM, Ashish Agarwal wrote:
</div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5">The xterm windows that virtual machines start up in have
several limitations. I was hoping to pass extra options to the xterm
command, but I cannot get this to work. I tried by aliasing 'xterm' in
my shell and also adding the options to TERM_TYPE in netkit.conf.
Neither has any effect.
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<div>Does anyone know how to do this? Or should I just use konsole or
gnome (but there are bug reports suggesting gnome causes other
problems).</div>
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<div>The features I would like are:</div>
<div>- a scroll bar</div>
<div>- the number of lines buffered should be increased</div>
<div>- output to a window should not reposition the screen to the
bottom of the scrolling region (the -si option to xterm should
accomplish this)</div>
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