"T. Alexander Popiel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: :Urg, try two, without the patch (so I don't hit the message size :limits). The patch has been made available at: : http://www.best.com/~popiel/scrollbar.patch : :Hello. I'm new here, so I don't know if I'm stepping on anybody's :toes, covering old ground, or anything like that. If I am, please :tell me, and I'll desist. :-)
No problems. I'm very happy to have input of ideas - and the associated patches :-) :The last three times I've installed rxvt, I've gotten grumpy, because :I prefer the athena (aka xterm) scrollbar semantics, instead of the :normal rxvt semantics. While this is a simple compile-time option, :it's a pain to use, since most installs these days are done with :precompiled binaries. I have already introduced something similar into the beta series (2.7.*) around 2.7.5 so that you can compile in 0, 1, 2 or 3 scrollbar styles and choose them via the "scrollstyle" resource or long option. Thus the benefit for precompiled package generators is that he/she can build with all 3 styles and the end user can choose his/her own preference. I didn't make it a short option because I presumed that most people would use one scrollbar style and stick to it, in which case he/she would just put that style into his/her resource list (one can experiment via long options since long options and resources are equivalently named). e.g. % rxvt --scrollstyle next :There are three new runtime options included in my changes: : -ss style scrollbar style; style = rxvt | xterm / athena | next : -sw width scrollbar width : -sa align scrollbar thumb click alignment; align = center | top | bottom The "-sa" option is interesting and I think is worth integrating. Again, I don't know if it's worth putting in as a short option since once someone has chosen one he/she will usually stick with it. Maybe someone can suggest reasons otherwise? I'm not sure about "-sw" (BTW, "-sw" is currently used for a different option in 2.7.*). xterm calls it (for whatever reason) "thickness" so that's probably the name I'd consider appropriate. Regards, -- Geoff Wing gcw main email : " @pobox.com rxvt stuff : " @rxvt.org zsh stuff : " @zsh.org
