• 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

Start Xterm as a login shell (load /etc/profile and .bashrc (on redhat, at least))

xterm -l

Put the scrolbar on the right side of the term

xterm -rightbar

Use a visual Bell (screen flash) instead of a beep

xterm -vb

Change colours

xterm -fg <foreground colour> -bg <background colour>

Swap forground/background colours

xterm -rv

Run a program in Xterm

xterm -e <program name>

For more information see xterm(1).