SVBUG::PAST EVENTS::Aug 4, 2005

Aug 4, 2005
---Feature Track-- 7:45pm--
Feature: Jesse Monroy, Jr. - Club President - Basic Xterm Configuration.

RTF version here

Basic Xterm Xconfiguration

xterm provides DEC VT102/VT220 and Tektronic 4014 compatible terminals

	Command Line Options

-help	verbose message description is written to standard error
-version	verion is written to standard output

-rv	reverse video
-fg color	foreground
-bg color	background
-geometry WxH+c+c	size and placement
-title title	Title in window bar

-sb	ScrollBar On
-sl n	Scroll Lines (64 default)
-rightbar	force scrollbar on right side

-e prog args	execute program
-hold	does not exit on shell termination

	Keyboard/Mouse Actions

<shift><keypad-plus>	Larger Font/Window
<shift><keypad-minus>	Smaller Font/Window

[mousebutton-1]	mark start of selection
[mousebutton-1]-hold+drag	select text
[mousebutton-2]	paste selected text (emulation is both buttons together)
[mousebutton-3]	extend selection

<ctrl>[mousebutton-1]	Main Options
<ctrl>[mousebutton-2]	VT Options
<ctrl>[mousebutton-3]	VT Fonts

<alt><ctrl><F8>	Switch to TTY mode (usually ttyv7)
<alt><ctrl><F9>	Switch back to Xterm Windows

See Also:

xterm(1)

showrgb(1)

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt - color tables

http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.html

Example:

xterm -bg black -fg cyan -geometry 80x43-0+0 -sb -rightbar -sl 2000

-bg black	background black
-fg cyan	foreground cyan
-geometry 80x43-0+0	size(80x43 chars), topright
-sb -rightbar -sl 2000	scrollbar (on), right side, 2000 scrollback lines