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List:       dng
Subject:    Re: [DNG] What do you guys like about Desktop Environments?
From:       Didier Kryn <kryn () in2p3 ! fr>
Date:       2023-12-26 16:25:40
Message-ID: 7de74314-a456-44d8-962d-5572ccd9aece () in2p3 ! fr
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Le 26/12/2023 à 12:26, Harald Arnesen via Dng a écrit :
> Didier Kryn [25/12/2023 18.48]:
>
>>      In Xterm, everything is configurable through one zilion 
>> command-line options, which, in practice would imply to RTFM and 
>> write one's own script to start it, because it does not read a config 
>> file. 
>
> xterm reads ~/.Xresources, where I have (amongst other stuff):
>
> XTerm*decTerminalID: vt340
> XTerm*numColorRegisters: 256
> XTerm*termName: xterm-256color
> XTerm*utf8: true
> XTerm*background: White
> XTerm*foreground: Black
> XTerm*cursorColor: Red
> XTerm*reverseVideo: false
> XTerm*scrollBar: false
> XTerm*reverseWrap: true
> XTerm*locale: false
> XTerm*metaSendsEscape: true
> XTerm*faceName: Inconsolata:size=10
> XTerm*boldFaceName: Inconsolata Bold:size=10
> XTerm*fullCursor: true
> XTerm*scrollTtyOutput: false
> XTerm*scrollKey: true
> XTerm*titleBar: false
> XTerm*saveLines: 4096
> XTerm*vt100.geometry: 80x24
> XTerm*vt100.printerCommand: select-url
> XTerm*vt100.charClass: 33:48,35:48,37-38:48,43-47:48,
> 58:48,61:48,63-64:48,95:48,126:48
> XTerm*vt100.cutNewline: false
> XTerm*vt100.cutToBeginningOfLine: false
> XTerm*eightBitInput: false
> XTerm*modifyCursorKeys: 1
> XTerm*modifyFunctionKeys: 1
> XTerm*printerCommand: select-url
> XTerm*vt100.translations: #override \n\
>
> All of this is probably not needed, most of it has been there for years.

     Now I remember this X feature which I vaguely learned when Xwindow 
was first deployed. One config file for all Xwindow applications. Thank 
you for reminding me. Maybe I'll create a config file for xterm and try 
to use it in place of xfce4-terminal for the sake of reducing 
dependency. Customiastion is mandatory unless you can read tiny 
characters and enjoy the look of the good old Tektronix terminal of the 
70's.

     There exists xtermcontrol to test the effects of changing 
parameters of a running xterm, but it is a CLI application and its 
options are obviously the same as xterm: a looong list. And you must 
guess (eg) which font to choose unless you know by hart the list of 
installed fonts. Therefore, the easiest thing to do is to experiment the 
settings in some DE's terminal emulator and translate it into an 
Xresource config file.

--    Didier

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