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Subject: Re: cygwin terminal question
From: Reid Thompson <Reid DOT Thompson AT ateb DOT com>
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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:47:30 -0400
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in your home directory do:

$ vi .Xdefaults

add the lines and write and quit.


http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2001-q2/msg01954/.Xdefaults

The man pages for xterm and rxvt list .Xdefaults values available
also...

reid
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 09:35 -0700, ppanta wrote:
> Thanks,
> I manage to fix the layout problem but can't find the .xdefaults file.
> If you can point me to the location of the file or a good tutorial on this
> subject, please let me know.
> 
> Thx again,
> pp
> 
> 
> 
> Reid Thompson wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 08:57 +0200, Jan Moesen wrote:
> >> > e.g. I can only see the last 200 lines in my terminal.
> >> If you are talking about the default console window (e.g. bash), you can 
> >> change its properties in the window's system menu. Click on the icon in 
> >> the title bar, choose Properties, go to the Layout tab and change the 
> >> screen buffer size.
> >> 
> >> Hope that helps,
> >> 
> >> Jan!
> >> 
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> > If you're talking about rxvt or xterm, etc, then pass the appropriate
> > command line parameter when invoking, or set it in .Xdefaults..
> > 
> > 
> > rxvt -sl 2500 => scroll length 2500
> > or add to .Xdefaults => Rxvt.saveLines: 2500
> > 
> > 
> > xterm -sl 2500
> > or .Xdefaults => Xterm.savelines: 2500
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