Terminals

[Jack Coates]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 06:56, Julien Graglia wrote:
>  > There is no horizontal scrollbar in xterm...
> 
> arghhh!
> 
> I try the solutions you gave me, but , "malheureusement" ,none of them 
> solve my problem :  
>        . my console are already maximised (horizontally)
>        . when i change the font, it came really unreadable
>        . when i deactivate "Auto Wraparound", there is only one line but 
> cut if too long and no way to get the "cutted" part when you maximise 
> the window
> 
> In fact i just switch from Windows to Linux : DOS console can be 
> configured the way i need : dont wrap horizontally+horiz scrollbar;  and 
> i just can't imagine that the Linux console (which is much more advanced 
> coz u can do everything from it:completion, color, background, 
> transparency...fancy options..) can do the same. I do man / google / 
> news / ask friends ... none knows how to do that..

what's going on? You shouldn't need a horizontal scrollbar, practically
anything will linewrap the output and if it doesn't, you can just
maximize the window (in Linux, the maximize button really does maximize
a terminal instead of just making it tall).

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Jack at Monkeynoodle Dot Org: It's A Scientific Venture...
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