Re: scroll bar resource? (SOLVED)
Leyon, Christopher wrote: John, I'm afraid we're reaching the limits of my knowledge on this one... I have not used hamm, so I don't know what its set-up was like. (Before I installed Slink, I was using Red Hat.) Perhaps xterm is statically linked (doubtful)? Does ldd report anything unusual? How is your /etc/ls.so.conf configured? Do you have other X libraries that might be inadvertently used instead (e.g., libc5 v. libc6 libs)? Do other similar programs (e.g., rxvt, Eterm) exhibit the same behavior? I'm kind of grasping at straws here; sorry I can't be more helpful Your straws led to the solution Chris, Thanks ;-) After following the trail from the ldd output, I found that my hamm xterm had libXaw.so.6 linked to libneXtaw.so.6.1 but my slink libXaw.so.6 was linked to libXaw95.so.6.1. I changed the link and now have the scroll bars I want in slink. :))) Cheers John Carline -- Chris Leyon -- From: John[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 10:11 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: scroll bar resource? (half solved) Chris, Thanks, you were right about the Xaw3d package. Once I installed it several of the slink applications regained the same scroll bar look as on my hamm disk. Xterm, however, remained the same. Still just a plain bar with no arrows. Is xterm in slink different than xterm in hamm? Or did I just stumble into a non-standard configuration when I first loaded linux back in October? And all this time I thought I was using the standard scroll bars. ;-) John Carline
Re: scroll bar resource?
Thanks Robbie, but it doesn't appear that editres is the answer. I can change the color or turn it on/off, but unless I'm missing something I can't seem to change the type of scroll bar. I like your idea about editing Netscape though. I'll try it later. John From: Robbie Huffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: scroll bar resource? To: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 08:03:47PM -0500, John wrote: My question is where is the configuration for the scrollbar coming from? Is there a package that I haven't loaded that controls this? I'd sure like to be able to have the hamm scroll bars in slink. Hmmm...try /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm or your ~/.Xdefaults. Use the editres program to play with these settings and make sense of the gibberish in the files you look at. It can be a lot of fun playing with editres (use it with Netscape, too). For a quick run-through: 1)start editres 2)Do commands...get tree 3)Click on an xterm window 4)Click on the vt100 box 5)Click commands...show resource box 6)Click on background 6)Enter a color name in the text field 7)Click apply Neat-o, eh? You'll find fields corresponding to the configuration of the scroll bar. I'm not sure that will make the change you're looking for (the bars may indicate a compiled-in difference). But give it a try! I widened my Netscape scrollbars this way. Robbie
Re: scroll bar resource? (half solved)
Chris, Thanks, you were right about the Xaw3d package. Once I installed it several of the slink applications regained the same scroll bar look as on my hamm disk. Xterm, however, remained the same. Still just a plain bar with no arrows. Is xterm in slink different than xterm in hamm? Or did I just stumble into a non-standard configuration when I first loaded linux back in October? And all this time I thought I was using the standard scroll bars. ;-) John Carline From: Leyon, Christopher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: scroll bar resource? To: 'John' [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's hard to tell without actually seeing what's on your screen, but my guess is that your hamm has the Xaw3d library installed while your slink doesn't. Without this library, you get the standard vanilla Athena widgets (that's the aw part), which do look quite plain. But if you install Xaw3d, this library overrides the standard widgets and provides a 3-D look-and-feel (modelled after NeXTstep) for various controls. Chris Leyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hi Folks, I've got two distributions of Debian running on separate hard drives (hamm and slink) and have noticed that the scrollbars for the xterm box (among others) is different even though the xterm configuration seems to be the same. My hamm distribution has an up/down arrow at the bottom of the scrollbar plus a sliding bar. The slink version has only the capability of clicking the left or right mouse buttons to scroll (make that jump) up or down. Evidently I've loaded/configured something differently when I installed slink. My question is where is the configuration for the scrollbar coming from? Is there a package that I haven't loaded that controls this? I'd sure like to be able to have the hamm scroll bars in slink. Thanks for any assistance John Carline
scroll bar resource?
Hi Folks, I've got two distributions of Debian running on separate hard drives (hamm and slink) and have noticed that the scrollbars for the xterm box (among others) is different even though the xterm configuration seems to be the same. My hamm distribution has an up/down arrow at the bottom of the scrollbar plus a sliding bar. The slink version has only the capability of clicking the left or right mouse buttons to scroll (make that jump) up or down. Evidently I've loaded/configured something differently when I installed slink. My question is where is the configuration for the scrollbar coming from? Is there a package that I haven't loaded that controls this? I'd sure like to be able to have the hamm scroll bars in slink. Thanks for any assistance John Carline
Re: scroll bar resource?
John wrote: Hi Folks, I've got two distributions of Debian running on separate hard drives (hamm and slink) and have noticed that the scrollbars for the xterm box (among others) is different even though the xterm configuration seems to be the same. My hamm distribution has an up/down arrow at the bottom of the scrollbar plus a sliding bar. The slink version has only the capability of clicking the left or right mouse buttons to scroll (make that jump) up or down. If you push down on both the left and right mouse buttons at the same time you can drag the scrollbar. Evidently I've loaded/configured something differently when I installed slink. I had the same thing happen. kent My question is where is the configuration for the scrollbar coming from? Is there a package that I haven't loaded that controls this? I'd sure like to be able to have the hamm scroll bars in slink. Thanks for any assistance John Carline -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
