OT: xterm setup

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Aug 31), Jesse Sheidlower said:
> Hmm. I certainly thought I was using xterm, as I recall setting up
> the icon to launch xterm, and my .bashrc is setting TERM to
> xterm-color rather than gnome-terminal or anything else. And I'm
> rather sure that I have the exact same setup on my Linux box, which
> is in the office and thus unavailable for me to look at right now.
> It's also the case that the font displaying with xterm now looks
> totally familiar, and the one displaying with gnome-terminal is
> totally unfamiliar and ugly.
> 
> Is it possible that the functional scrollbars, etc., were an addition
> of the window manager, and if so is there any way to replicate it
> now?

Very unlikely.  The window manager has no idea what is inside the
rectangle it's managing, so the only useful menuitem it could put up
would be "close"

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	Dan Nelson
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