Re: mind numbing beginner question...
Wayne E. Harlan (dr.harlan@pdq.net)
Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:07:05 -0500 (CDT)
On 27 Jul, jaw@ex-ans.net wrote:
> Yeah - I found man Wharf & man Pager after I sent that mail.
> Thanks for the feedback!
>
> Do you know where you can configure a scrollbar on xterms? I have read
> through alot and have not seen that...
I may be mistaken, but I believe the xterms themselves control some of
the options on where the scrollbar goes. I like it on the right and
aterm has an option that I put in .Xdefaults, namely:
"aterm*scrollBar_right: true"
>
> I am trying to put a scroll bar on the left side of my xterms, and I
> cannot figure out where that goes...
>
> Thanks!
> Josh
>
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, David Mihm wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 jaw@ex-ans.net wrote:
>>
>> > I have afterstep-1.6.10 running on my FreeBSD 3.4 box. ....
>>
>> 1.8.0 has been out for some time now, perhaps you might consider
>> replacing the old version. (there are 3 patches to 1.8.0 as well).
>>
>> > Now that I have afterstep running, do I need to make look & feel
>> > directories in ~/G/L/A next to the non-configurable directory? Then
>> > move some of the example look and/or feel files into it? What is step1
>> > here in fooling with customization?
>>
>> Yes. If you wish to start to customize the look/feels, you'd want
>> to mkdir ~/G/L/A/looks/ and ~/G/L/A/feels/ ; then cp one of the share/
>> directory look/feel files that best approxiamtes the look/feel you like
>> best. Then you can rename the file, edit it in relation to the
>> explanations convererd in the appropriate sections of the man pages (man
>> afterstep). Select 'menu->Quit->Restart this session' to rebuild the
>> startmenu which will reveal your newly created look/feel and the select
>> it.
>>
>> If you are wanting to change the menu from the defaults, this will
>> require you cp the .include files that are listed in the FILES section of
>> man afterstep; making the directories in the ~/G/L/A tree.
>>
>> HTH
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