Re: OT: xterm setup

From: Dan Nelson (dnelson_at_allantgroup.com)
Date: 08/31/03

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    Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 00:52:08 -0500
To: Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com>

    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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