[desktop-discuss] Re: JDS Development Build 50 now available

[Dennis Clarke]

> Just in case anyone is experiencing the same problem, you can create (&
> switch to) an xterm launcher in the gnome desktop using the command
> /use/openwin/bin/xterm .  Hope this problem can be solved soon.
>
>

Generally I create a launcher on my desktop that points to a script in my
home directory named .xterm.sh

the contents of the .xterm.sh file are thus :

#!/sbin/sh
/usr/openwin/bin/xterm +ah -b 4 -cr yellow -j -ls -ms white +mb -rw -aw -s
-sb +si -sk -sl 2048 +t -tn vt100 -vb -wf -T xterm -bw 4 -bg black -bd red
-fg green -fn screen &

that will produce a classic green font on black background xterm with a
scroll bar and red one pixel border and a few other features that I like.

I actually did list the fonts that Solaris 10 Update 2 seems to produce and
I manually went through piles of them looking for decent fonts to use in
xterm.

This thing produces a nice looking font :

/usr/openwin/bin/xterm +ah -b 4 -cr yellow -j -ls -ms white +mb -rw -aw -s
-sb +si -sk -sl 2048 +t -tn vt100 -vb -wf -T xterm -bw 4 -bg black -bd red
-fg green -fn
-schumacher-clean-medium-r-normal--16-160-75-75-c-80-iso646.1991-irv &

This is a little larger with nicely open letters and spaceing :

/usr/openwin/bin/xterm +ah -b 4 -cr yellow -j -ls -ms white +mb -rw -aw -s
-sb +si -sk -sl 2048 +t -tn vt100 -vb -wf -T xterm -bw 4 -bg black -bd red
-fg green -fn -b\&h-lucida\
typewriter-regular-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1 &

Dennis

ps: my desktop is totally hosed .. never worked again after the vermillion
b50 install and I have no idea where I went wrong.