On 4/10/19, bw wrote: > In-Reply-To: <CAD8GWsuHoM0DZyD1 fUYpvs-7BLK1bPTFzqSeQhKY > pcu-...@mail.gmail.com> > >><ler...@gmail.com> >>altho lxterm, uxterm and xterm all create a tiny window with the font >>size so small they're damn near unusable. And no obvious menu I can >>find to change the font size, window size or anything, so more man >>page spelunking for me. > > xterm is good, but yeah it is not very useful out of the box. There are > menus, most of the time you can get them by holding down ctrl and using > either mouse button.
That's something I would have never guessed. Hold down the <ctrl> key + right click and hold _inside_ the xterm window and I get a menu that lets me select "large" as a font size. So at least the xterm window contents are readable now. No option to save that setting, but still.. progress, so thank you! > I never tried to remap the middle mouse paste, I think that is part of > the x server, not necessarily the particular terminal. I'm hoping there's something along the lines of XTerm*rightMouseButton: paste that I can put into an X resource file and have right click = paste inside an xterm window & right click anywhere else still be the default action. > It probably could > be done but if you could gravitate to shift-ins and middle mouse click to > paste it might serve you well. Maybe someday, but for now I'm still of the opinion that the computer should change to accommodate my work style - not the other way around. > Let people know what you find out. Especially if you get any good > .Xresources settings or find good documentation about this. Nope - I haven't found anything yet. Hopefully because I'm still too close to the bottom of the X windows learning curve. > It is fairly > rare to find good documentation on these settings IME. The xterm FAQ is > huge and worth looking thru, but hard to find out exactly who does what > sometimes. > > https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.faq.html Thanks - I'll check it out. Lee
