Re: many xterm & x11 questions
Re: many xterm & x11 questions
- Subject: Re: many xterm & x11 questions
- From: robert delius royar <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:29:01 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: An Apple OS X end user
- Priority: normal
Thu, 20 Oct 2005 (12:01 -0700 UTC) Patrick J. Collins wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> Thanks a lot for taking the time to reply to my questions... To answer
> yours:
> I like xterm because of the font!! It's so crystal clear and bitmapped and
> beautiful... If you can tell me how I can get this font in other terminal
> programs, then perhaps I will abandon xterm.
>
> As for my mouse cursor.. I swear, it's black.. and my background is black..
>
> my xdefaults file is:
>
> XTerm*Background: black
> XTerm*Foreground: white
> XTerm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> XTerm*boldFont: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
> XTerm*boldMode: false
> XTerm*geometry: 80x40
man xterm
/-ms
-ms color
This option specifies the color to be used for the pointer cur-
sor. The default is to use the foreground color.
^^^^^^^^^^
Maybe you mean the text cursor? (-cr).
>
> and I am accessing xterm with "xterm -e login -fp patrick &"
Make it
xterm -e login -ms white -cr white -fp patrick &
>
> anything wrong with what im doing?
>
> Patrick J. Collins
> http://collinatorstudios.com
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Oct 2005, Mark J. Reed wrote:
>
>> On 10/20/05, Patrick J. Collins <email@hidden> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi everyone, I just switched over from iTerm to X11 & Xterm.
>>
>>
>> Ok, I have a question: why? :) I just made the opposite switch. xterm is
>> too
>> buggy for me; crashes on resize in Panther, for instance.
>>
>> #1: how can I make it so X11 on launch does NOT open xterm automatically?
>>
>>
>> Create a file in your home directory called .xinitrc. Put into it whatever
>> commands you want to run when you launch X11.
>>
>> Important notes:
>>
>> 1. the file is run just as if you'd typed the commands in a terminal
>> window,
>> which means that if you do this:
>>
>> xterm
>> xterm
>>
>> the second xterm will never open until the first one is closed. Put all
>> but
>> the last command in the file into the background using the shell's &
>> syntax:
>>
>> xterm &
>> xterm
>>
>> 2. once you have a .xinitrc, it replaces the system one entirely - which
>> means that you don't get a window manager unless you put it in there, too.
>> For the "make X11 windows look like Mac windows" behavior, the window
>> manager you want to run is quartz-wm.
>>
>> 3. whatever the last foreground (no &) command in the file is, when that
>> program exits, it takes your X11 session with it. So it's usually best to
>> make that the place where you run the window manager.
>>
>>
>> #2: how can I make it so that when I launch xterm, that the window's
>> > position
>> > is not set to 0,0-- but rather somewhere in the middle of the screen?
>>
>>
>> Use the -geom (geometry) option to xterm. The arguments are
>> WIDTHxHEIGHT+HORIZONTAL_OFFSET+VERTICAL_OFFSET, where WIDTH and HEIGHT are
>> measured in character cells (default is 80x24) and HORIZONTAL_OFFSET and
>> VERTICAL_OFFSET are measured in pixels. So to get a standard 80x24 window
>> whose upper left corner is in the middle of your 1280x1024 screen, use
>> xterm
>> -geom 80x24+640+512. To make it stick, use the X11 menus to edit the
>> command
>> that gets run when you use command-N.
>>
>> #3: when I set "defaults write com.apple.x11 enable_system_beep -boolean
>> > false" for --Don't use the standard system beep effect for X11 alerts...
>> > It
>> > appears to beep with a sinewave-- Is there a way to replace this with an
>> > aiff
>> > or wav file?
>>
>>
>> That I don't know.
>>
>> #4: my background of xterm is black (as I like it), however, I find that
>> my
>> > mouse cursor becomes black when it enters the window... Therefore making
>> > it
>> > virtually impossible to see my cursor.. Is there a way to make my mouse
>> > cursor
>> > more visible?
>>
>>
>> The mouse cursor color should change to match your xterm's foreground text
>> color. If you really have it set to black background and white letters,
>> then
>> the mouse cursor should be white. If, however, you have it set to white
>> background and black letters plus "reverse mode", the cursor will stay
>> black. So use -bg and -fg instead of -rv to get your black background.
>>
>>
>> #5: has anyone modified/hacked xterm so that command-v works instead of
>> only
>> > middle-click?
>>
>>
>> Not that I know of with xterm. There are other X11 terminal programs which
>> participate in explicit command-based copy/paste schemes, usually
>> associated
>> with a desktop environment like KDE or GNOME.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mark J. Reed <email@hidden>
>>
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