On 12-03/16:01, Fetchinson . wrote: > Hi all, > > This is not strictly vim related but don't know where to post it (is > there an xterm list somewhere?) and thought that people here might be > knowledgeable on xterm too not only vim. > > I'm using xterm (without any wrappers like gnome-terminal, etc) and > would like to set a left margin, i.e. I'd like to prevent the first > character to be immediately at the left side of the window. For > example one empty character on the left side would be great (this is > especially useful and comforting to my eyes when I use xterm in full > screen mode). > > I can't find anything that I could set in .Xdefaults or .Xresources > and also can't find a suitable command line option in the manual. > > Does anyone know if this is possible at all? > > Cheers, > Daniel
`man xterm | less +/border` gives: > -b number > This option specifies the size of the inner border (the distance between > the outer edge of the characters and the window border) in pixels. That > is the vt100 internalBorder resource. The default is "2". So, for the .Xresources: 'xterm.internalBorder: $howManyPixelsYouWant' - Nathan -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / - against HTML emails X - against proprietory attachments / \ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII_Ribbon_Campaign -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
