Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-06 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:09:59PM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: [...] . Changing font size and resizing xterm on keypress In your .Xresources (or .Xdefaults), add this: --- cut here --- #define XTERM_RESIZE_TALL \033[8;64;80t #define XTERM_RESIZE_BIG\033[8;41;80t #define

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-06 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Rob VanFleet said... On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 12:09:59PM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: [...] . Changing font size and resizing xterm on keypress In your .Xresources (or .Xdefaults), add this: --- cut here --- #define XTERM_RESIZE_TALL \033[8;64;80t

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-03 Thread Russell
Jason Pepas wrote: I've actually had a little bit of a bad experience trying to do this. I have Deep XResources Magic that causes fonts to come up at the reported resolution of the display and to prefer scalable fonts, rather than using fixed 75 or 100dpi fonts. My normal xterm font is 11pt

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:50:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: than xterm. Fonts in xterms are just plain hard to read. This is why you can change the fonts. I remember posts in the past describing how to change xterm fonts, check the archives for details. -- .''`. Baloo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-03 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 03:50:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: There is *no* comparison between that barely screen-oriented Windows Telnet and Gnome Terminal and konsole, both of which work great, and, even though they are heavier, look much better than xterm. i've found some snags in gnome

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-03 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:12:51AM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: Once upon a time Gregory Seidman said... } Of course, configuring xterms can be annoying ...unless you bother to learn about Xt resources. Xterm is nearly infinitely configurable. With a combination of Xt

XTERM [ was Re: Windows Telnet ]

2003-01-03 Thread will trillich
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 08:16:45AM -0600, will trillich wrote: i've found some snags in gnome-terminal (1.4.0.6 under woody) that haven't interfered with my windo~1 PuTTY experiences... - some items are not blanked properly; that is, when new text at the bottom scrolls text off the top,

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-03 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, Russell wrote: *VT100*color0: black !red ... Put this into ~/.Xresources or /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color. I have menu items that run xterms that ssh to different machines. I set xterm options on the command line to change colors and title. But is there a way in the

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-03 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time will trillich said... - my prompt includes escape sequences to hilite user@host:path and gnome-terminal gets all confused on cursor positioning, particularly when using word-delete to edit the command line. (i'd expect the linux console tohave similar conniptions, but

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-03 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Bill Moseley said... I have menu items that run xterms that ssh to different machines. I set xterm options on the command line to change colors and title. But is there a way in the .Xresources file to say settings apply to a specific xterm process by setting a command line

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-03 Thread csj
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 17:48:01 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: Alan Shutko sez: } Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: } Fonts in xterms are just plain hard to read. } } Not if you have the right font. xterm has even had Xft support } longer than KDE or GNOME's terminals. There are a few

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 04/01/03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] did speaketh: There are a few features that various other terminal programs (GNOME, KDE, rxvt, Eterm, etc.) have that xterm does not: 1) transparency 2) arbitrary images as background 3) multiple windows in the same process 4) tabbed terminals 5) a

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-03 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time will trillich said... On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 10:12:51AM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote: With a combination of Xt resources (translations) and control sequences, I've been able to do nifty things like bind function keys to change the font and resize the xterm and to

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 04:00:10PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Not to mention that the aforementioned terminals are nowhere-near as adaptable and reliable as xterm. It was one of the only terms that supported turning off BoldMode, for example, and can be compiled with logging. I hate

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 07:57:15PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 04:00:10PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Not to mention that the aforementioned terminals are nowhere-near as adaptable and reliable as xterm. It was one of the only terms that supported turning off

Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Ron Johnson
Windows Telnet? I realise that DE's are supposed to be most helpful for newbies, but *jeeze*, I have to wonder if anybody stopped for a moment and thought that maybe unleashing something as garish and stubborn as Windows Telnet on the Linux community isn't the right thing to do. As someone who

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fonts in xterms are just plain hard to read. Not if you have the right font. xterm has even had Xft support longer than KDE or GNOME's terminals. Of course, configuring xterms can be annoying -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Gregory Seidman
Alan Shutko sez: } Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: } Fonts in xterms are just plain hard to read. } } Not if you have the right font. xterm has even had Xft support } longer than KDE or GNOME's terminals. There are a few features that various other terminal programs (GNOME, KDE, rxvt,

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Gregory Seidman said... } Of course, configuring xterms can be annoying ...unless you bother to learn about Xt resources. Xterm is nearly infinitely configurable. And dont forget about the control sequences documented in /usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.txt.gz. With a

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Gregory Seidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: } Of course, configuring xterms can be annoying ...unless you bother to learn about Xt resources. No, Xt resources are annoying. I'll grant powerful, but definately annoying. -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! My hard

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Jason Pepas
I've actually had a little bit of a bad experience trying to do this. I have Deep XResources Magic that causes fonts to come up at the reported resolution of the display and to prefer scalable fonts, rather than using fixed 75 or 100dpi fonts. My normal xterm font is 11pt Courier; trying

Re: Windows Telnet

2003-01-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 05:48:01PM -0500, Gregory Seidman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Alan Shutko sez: } Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: } Fonts in xterms are just plain hard to read. } } Not if you have the right font. xterm has even had Xft support } longer than KDE or GNOME's