Hi 2008/8/11 Owain Ainsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 03:11:58PM +0200, Pau wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have had a look at cwm today. It looks nice. This is >> >> OpenBSD 4.3 GENERIC#698 i386 >> >> I have found out that when I redefine term in .calmwm with a symbolic >> link to xterm with a certain font, that geometry etc, pressing >> C-M-Enter spawns a new terminal, the one I redefined but, then, when >> trying to use the nice ``Ssh to'' dialog with M-. I simply get "my" >> xterm after the dialog but no connexion. > > That is what .Xdefaults or similar is for... > > XTerm*termName: xterm-xfree86 > XTerm*background: black > XTerm*foreground: grey > XTerm*jumpScroll: true > XTerm*multiScroll: true > XTerm*scrollBar: false > XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true > XTerm*faceName: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono > XTerm*faceSize: 7 > > (yes, those are what I use)
yes, I agree. But .Xdefaults is not quite trivial to understand; e.g. how do you pass the option to receive console output? What is the equivalent of -C on the command line for .Xdefaults? Something I also do not understand, most likely due to my abhorrent ignorance, is why all man pages here /usr/X11R6/man/ are not installed per default. man xterm yields nothing. If I am supposed to do it on my own, I'd appreciate a hint how to do it. I don't see any Makefile there. That means that all these programmes: FvwmAuto.0 FvwmIconMan.0 FvwmScroll.0 koi8rxterm.0 xterm.0 FvwmBacker.0 FvwmIdent.0 FvwmTalk.0 resize.0 xtsscale.0 FvwmBanner.0 FvwmM4.0 FvwmWinList.0 ssh-askpass.0 xvctl.0 FvwmButtons.0 FvwmPager.0 cwm.0 uxterm.0 FvwmCpp.0 FvwmRearrange.0 fvwm.0 xidle.0 FvwmForm.0 FvwmSave.0 glxgears.0 xpmroot.0 FvwmIconBox.0 FvwmSaveDesk.0 glxinfo.0 xsystrace.0 do not have man pages after a default installation (cwm among them) elachistos(p7)| ls /usr/X11R6/man/ ~ (16:54) cat1 cat4 cat7 man3 man5 whatis.db cat3 cat5 man1 man4 man7 elachistos(p7)| ls /usr/X11R6/man/cat1 ~ (16:56) FvwmAuto.0 FvwmIconMan.0 FvwmScroll.0 koi8rxterm.0 xterm.0 FvwmBacker.0 FvwmIdent.0 FvwmTalk.0 resize.0 xtsscale.0 FvwmBanner.0 FvwmM4.0 FvwmWinList.0 ssh-askpass.0 xvctl.0 FvwmButtons.0 FvwmPager.0 cwm.0 uxterm.0 FvwmCpp.0 FvwmRearrange.0 fvwm.0 xidle.0 FvwmForm.0 FvwmSave.0 glxgears.0 xpmroot.0 FvwmIconBox.0 FvwmSaveDesk.0 glxinfo.0 xsystrace.0 elachistos(p7)| man xterm ~ (16:56) man: no entry for xterm in the manual. diff /tmp/man2.conf /etc/man.conf yields nothing. /tmp/man2.conf is from an obsd 4.2 box in which man xterm works well... Any help would be appreciated. Pau > > Anyway, don't use symlinks here in any case. > > command term "xterm -fa 'Bitstream Vera Serif'" > > works fine, including with the ssh-to dialogue. > >> >> virtual desktops would be nice, but I'll just take what they give me, >> this is not a wish-list > > a combination of sticky mode, autogroup and a patch to make commands for > "switch to group X and hide the rest" available would emulate virtual > desktops fine. I've not written the patch since i've currently got other > more important things to do. Anyone who wants to write such a patch is > welcome, else I'll get around to it eventually. > > Cheers, > -0- > > -- > He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation > perfectly delightful. > -- Sydney Smith
