Re: scroll bar resource?

[John <jtc@stic.net>]

Thanks Robbie, but it doesn't appear that editres is the answer. I can
change the color or turn it on/off, but unless I'm missing something I
can't seem to change the type of scroll bar.

I like your idea about editing Netscape though. I'll try it later.

John

> From: Robbie Huffman
> <robbie@user-37kbu2i.dialup.mindspring.com>
> Subject: Re: scroll bar resource?
> To: John <jtc@stic.net>
> 
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 08:03:47PM -0500, John wrote:
> >
> > My question is where is the configuration for the scrollbar coming from?
> > Is there a package that I haven't loaded that controls this?  I'd sure
> > like to be able to have the hamm scroll bars in slink.
> 
> Hmmm...try /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm or your
> ~/.Xdefaults.
> Use the editres program to play with these settings and make
> sense of the
> gibberish in the files you look at. It can be a lot of fun
> playing with
> editres (use it with Netscape, too). For a quick
> run-through:
> 
> 1)start editres
> 2)Do "commands...get tree"
> 3)Click on an xterm window
> 4)Click on the "vt100" box
> 5)Click "commands...show resource box"
> 6)Click on "background"
> 6)Enter a color name in the text field
> 7)Click "apply"
> 
> Neat-o, eh?
> 
> You'll find fields corresponding to the configuration of the
> scroll bar.
> I'm not sure that will make the change you're looking for
> (the bars may
> indicate a compiled-in difference). But give it a try! I
> widened my Netscape
> scrollbars this way.
> 
> Robbie