Hi, forwarding this to Thomas, I'm not sure when he subscribed to the BTS:
Joey Hess <jo...@debian.org> (08/07/2001): > Package: xterm > Version: 4.0.3-4 > Severity: wishlist > > As my window manager allows me to do so, I often use > full-screen-maximized (to the point where there is nothing but text on > the screen) xterms these days for things like running web browsers and > reading mail. But there's a problem -- xterm snaps its geometry to a > multiple of the text width and height, plus the border pad. With my most > common font, this results in an xterm which uses all but 2 pixels of my > screen horizontally, and some 5 vertically. Not quite fullscreen > maximization. The remaining pixels show whatever's underneath the xterm > of course, which rather ruins the 100% text look. > > I can play with the xterm border and make my window 2 pixels larger, but > I haven't found a way yet to independantly control the widths of the > horizontal and vertical borders. But all this playing around with > borders results in xterms I would only want to use > full-screen-maximized. It's not very flexible; if I want to use that > xterm unmaximized it will look funny, and if I want to change fonts (and > thus need a new border width), I have to start a new xterm with borders > tuned for that font. > > What I'd like is a way to tell xterm that I want it to run in a special > mode where if it is forcibly resized to some wonky geometry like > 1024x480, and that's doesn't match exactly the snapped-to geometry it > likes, just wing it: come up with appropriate horizontal and vertical > border widths as needed. When resized back to an exact multiple of the > font size, get rid of those borders. > > Maybe it's a tall order, maybe it's fairly easy. Non-x-programmer here > doesn't know. KiBi.
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