On 2022/09/04 18:30, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2022-09-04 18:16, Tim Chase wrote:
> > Playing around, I encountered the man-page talked about a toolbar:
> > 
> >     $ man xterm | ul | grep -e -tb -A6 
> >        -tb     This option, corresponding to the toolBar resource, indicates
> >                that xterm should display a toolbar (or menubar) at the top 
> > of
> >                its window.  The buttons in the toolbar correspond to the 
> > popup
> >                menus, e.g., control/left/mouse for Main Options.
> > 
> >        +tb     This option indicates that xterm should not set up a toolbar.
> > 
> > Curious, I tried it:
> > 
> >     $ xterm -tb
> >     xterm: bad command line option "-tb"
> >     [followed by allowed option output]
> 
> Following up, it doesn't look like that resource even exists:
> 
>   $ strings `which xterm` | grep -cx toolBar
>   0
>   $ strings `which xterm` | grep -cx scrollBar
>   1
> 
> so it might be worth removing the toolBar resource description
> further down in the man-page.

This is a build-time option from xterm upstream and marked as
experimental. As you've seen it doesn't just affect OpenBSD, the best
place to fix it (or add a "This option might not be available") would be
upstream, it's a bit annoying for updates if the various OS using
the software carry local small changes..

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