> A couple of weeks ago I posted about the problems I've been > having trying to run VirtualBox. Lats night I installed b84 > but the problem persisted, so I dug a bit deeper.
I hate getting into discussions about dtterm and xterm type things because both of us are probably set in our ways. I also live with green on black in very old fashioned DEC VT terminal fashion. I have been known to do some crazy sort of experiments, late at night when no one is looking, and I found that I can also use the new "amber" color as my foreground. This was just great and next I played a bit and discovered that one may select a given font into the mix too. This caused me to loosen my tie and I even discarded my pocket protector and handy slide rule. At that point .. some really crazy stuff began to happen. I wrote a pile of scripts called .xterm_foo.sh and put them all into a directory named .xterm in my home directory. Look here : $ ls -lap .xterm total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 dclarke csw 512 Aug 22 2007 ./ drwx------ 33 dclarke csw 1536 Mar 9 01:25 ../ -rwxr-xr-x 1 dclarke csw 173 Mar 22 1998 .xterm.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 dclarke csw 246 Sep 25 2006 .xterm_2.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 dclarke csw 197 Oct 1 2006 .xterm_C.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 dclarke csw 186 Aug 22 2007 .xterm_b.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 dclarke csw 184 May 12 2007 .xterm_bw.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 dclarke csw 224 Aug 6 2007 .xterm_lg.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 dclarke csw 224 Aug 6 2007 .xterm_lg_w.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 dclarke csw 225 Aug 6 2007 .xterm_lg_y.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 dclarke csw 182 May 31 2007 .xterm_p.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 dclarke csw 183 Dec 22 2001 .xterm_w.sh -rwxr-xr-x 1 dclarke csw 173 Sep 3 2004 .xterm_y.sh Let's look at that old one there from my Sun Ultra 10 days ( with the Creator 3D Series III OpenGL framebuffer ! ) : $ cat .xterm/.xterm.sh #!/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 & See there ? I can select the number of scroll back lines and the border color and the foreground is green. Pretty slick eh ? A few years later I tried large white chars : $ cat .xterm/.xterm_w.sh #!/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 white -fn 10x20 & And then later in life .. yellow : $ cat .xterm/.xterm_y.sh #!/sbin/sh /usr/openwin/bin/xterm +ah -b 4 -cr green -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 yellow & see http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/images/KDE_on_Solaris_8.jpg As you certainly know, you may run /usr/openwin/bin/xlsfonts to see a nice long list of character font options one may use. $ cat .xterm/.xterm_lg_y.sh #!/sbin/sh /usr/openwin/bin/xterm +ah -b 4 -cr white -j -ls +mb -ms yellow -rw -aw -s +si +sk -sl 16384 -tn xterm -vb -w 4 -bd red -fg yellow -bg black -sb -fn -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--25-180-100-100-m-150-iso8859-1 & These sort of things probably work with dtterm but I really like to just stick with xterm because it can be lightweight over a tunneled ssh session or even just with xauth allowing remote display. So you are using green on black still eh? Dennis ps: I still have a DEV VT220 on my desk. Is that okay ?
