>>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 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 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 This seems to have no effect (affect?) either. Can someone advise me as to what I am doing wrong? Thanks, Siegfried