In article <1040715997.31918.22.camel@localhost>, Mark L. Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >XTerms stick to the standard computer >terminal geometry - to hard-change that, you'd need to burrow into the >source (I presume a header file with such constants) - otherwise if you >feel that you must use the non-standard 25th line, that is what >.Xdefaults is for, as well as /etc/X11/Xresources/ - while most ncurses >applications I've seen now work with whatever screen size they get, you >may find some that will stick you with a bad line or confused scrolling >because they expect strictly 80x24 (although that is thankfully getting >quite rare, what with users of SVGATextMode and of framebuffer.)
If you enter a university computer room you'll see that lots of people run their xterms at 80x55 or so - and have been doing that since the eighties. Without any problems. Mike. -- They all laughed when I said I wanted to build a joke-telling machine. Well, I showed them! Nobody's laughing *now*! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
