To scroll using the scrollbar, grab the grey bar with the middle button.
Start Xterm as a login shell (load /etc/profile and .bashrc (on redhat, at least))
xterm -l
Use AntiAliasedFonts in Xterm!
xterm -bg white -fg black -fa "bitstream vera sans mono" -fs 8
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).
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.
Another solution (that isn't as tidy as the above) is to use xmodmap(1)
For more information see xterm(1).
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