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-!! Configuration Menu
+!
!! Configuration Menu
+
* To access the main menu, hold down the control key and click the left mouse button
* Ctrl-Middle Button is the terminal options (Preferences) - hint, you can set reverse video here.
* Ctrl-Right Button is the font options.
To scroll using the scrollbar, grab the grey bar with the middle button.
-!!Startup Options
+!!! Alt vs Meta
+
+At some stage (eg xterm version 187 in Debian Unstable), xterm started treating keyboard input differently when the Alt key was pressed. (For PC keyboards, the Alt key has the <tt>mod_1</tt> X keyboard modifier set). For example, pressing Alt+x generates a "ø" and pressing Alt+q now generates "ñ". This isn't very good if you want to use the Alt key in emacs(1) in the terminal. The best solution for this is to add <tt>XTerm*eightBitInput: false</tt> to either <tt>$HOME/.Xresources</tt> (for a single user) or to <tt>/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm</tt> (for a system wide default). The same change can be made for the <tt>UXTerm</tt> class for when you're using a [UTF-8] xterm.
+
+Another solution (that isn't as tidy as the above) is to use xmodmap(1) to tell X that your Alt key should generate Meta:
+
+<verbatim>
+xmodmap -e 'keysym Alt_L = Meta_L'
+</verbatim>
+
+!
!! Startup Options
-Start Xterm as a login shell (load /etc/profile and .bashrc (on redhat, at least))
-
xterm -l
+Some handy command line options that
xterm understands:
-Put
the scrolbar on
the right side of the term:
- xterm -rightbar
+<tt>-l</tt>:
+ launch
the shell as a login shell so it’ll load
the startup files like <tt>/etc/profile</tt>, <tt>.bashrc</tt>
-Use a visual Bell (screen flash) instead of a beep
:
- xterm -vb
+<tt>-rightbar</tt>
:
+ put the scrolbar on the right side of the term
-Change colours:
- xterm -fg
<foreground colour
> -bg
<background colour
>
+<tt
>-vb
</tt
>:
+ visual bell, flash the window instead of beeping the speaker
-Swap forground/
background colours
:
- xterm -rv
+<tt>-fg ''foreground colour'' -bg ''
background colour''</tt>
:
+ change colours
-Run a program in Xterm:
- xterm
-e
<program name
>
+<tt>
-rv
</tt
>:
+ swap forground/background colours
-Use AntiAliasedFonts in Xterm!
- xterm -bg white -fg black -fa "bitstream vera sans mono" -fs 8
+<tt>-e ''command''</tt>:
+ run the command instead of launching a shell
-!!Alt vs Meta
-At some stage (eg xterm version 187 in Debian Unstable), xterm started treating keyboard input differently when the Alt key was pressed. (For PC keyboards, the Alt key has the
"mod_1
" X keyboard modifier set). For example, pressing Alt+x generates a "ø" and pressing Alt+q
-now generates "ñ". This isn't very good if you want to
use the Alt key in emacs(1) in the terminal. The best solution for this is to add
- XTerm*eightBitInput: false
-to either $HOME/.Xresources (for a single user) or to /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm (for a system wide default).
+<tt>-fa
"bitstream vera sans mono
" -fs 8</tt>:
+
use AntiAliasedFonts!
-The same change
can be made for Debian's UXTerm class, or "xterm*eightBitInput: false" can
be used
to apply
to all instances
-of "
xterm" regardless of the class name
.
+All of these
can also
be put into your <tt>.Xresources</tt> so that they will
be permanently active without having
to pass all these parameters
to xterm every time
.
-Another solution (that isn't as tidy as the above) is to use xmodmap(1)
-to tell X that your Alt key should generate Meta:
- xmodmap
-e 'keysym Alt_L = Meta_L'
+!!! The full nitty
-gritty
-----
-For more information see
xterm(1).
+See
xterm(1).
