RE: FW: How to get scroll bars on initial xterm instance?

[Thomas Dickey <dickey at his dot com>]

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote:

> > > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:23 -0700, Siegfried Heintze (Aditi) wrote:
> > > When I run startx it creates an xterm for me. But this xterm does not have a scroll bar. I like to create xterms
> > > with "-sl 3000 -sb" so I get lots of history. How can I make startx create an xterm with these options?
>
> > edit startxwin.sh/startxwin.bat
> ï
> OK, in c:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.sh Line 106 I have:
>
> xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l -sb -sl 3000 &
>
> And in c:/cygwin/usr/X11R6/bin/startxwin.bat Line 151 I now have:
>
> %RUN% xterm -e /usr/bin/bash -l -sb -sl 6000

 %RUN% xterm  -sb -sl 6000 -e /usr/bin/bash -l

(xterm stops processing options on the "-e")

> Adding "-sb -sl 6000" did not seem to help.
>
> I also created the file c:\Documents and Settings\a-siehei\.Xresources with these contents on a different computer
>
> Xterm.*.saveLines: 3000
> Xterm.*.scrollbar: true

I already pointed out one problem with this.

However, ".Xresources" depends on how X is started - perhaps cygwin uses 
it...

(The ".Xdefaults" file tends to get more use).

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