>> 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'
Great, thanks a million! Apparently my problem was that I was googling/searching/manualreading/etc for the wrong term, I looked for "margin" and "padding" when it is actually "border" :) Cheers, Daniel > - 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. > -- Psss, psss, put it down! - http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown -- -- 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.
