Terminals

[Jack Kern]

Jack Coates wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 06:56, Julien Graglia wrote:
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>> > There is no horizontal scrollbar in xterm...
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>>arghhh!
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>>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
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>>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..
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>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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I don't know what problems he is having.  He said in an earlier post that:

"(I launch java app from terminal, but line make output quite unreadable 
(for me)...) "

I don't know what he is doing.  Is there something about java that is 
unusual in a terminal?