in your home directory do: $ vi .Xdefaults
add the lines and write and quit. http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/msg01954/.Xdefaults The man pages for xterm and rxvt list .Xdefaults values available also... reid On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 09:35 -0700, ppanta wrote: > Thanks, > I manage to fix the layout problem but can't find the .xdefaults file. > If you can point me to the location of the file or a good tutorial on this > subject, please let me know. > > Thx again, > pp > > > > Reid Thompson wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 08:57 +0200, Jan Moesen wrote: > >> > e.g. I can only see the last 200 lines in my terminal. > >> If you are talking about the default console window (e.g. bash), you can > >> change its properties in the window's system menu. Click on the icon in > >> the title bar, choose Properties, go to the Layout tab and change the > >> screen buffer size. > >> > >> Hope that helps, > >> > >> Jan! > >> > >> -- > >> Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > >> Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > >> Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > >> FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > If you're talking about rxvt or xterm, etc, then pass the appropriate > > command line parameter when invoking, or set it in .Xdefaults.. > > > > > > rxvt -sl 2500 => scroll length 2500 > > or add to .Xdefaults => Rxvt.saveLines: 2500 > > > > > > xterm -sl 2500 > > or .Xdefaults => Xterm.savelines: 2500 > > > > -- > > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > > > > > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
