Can we have scrollbars on right side with Xterm

Naimish Parikh

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Mar 1, 2004, 10:20:33 AM3/1/04

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In Solaris, when Xterm is launched with scrollbar option ON , the
scrollbars are put on the left side by default.
I desperately want the scrollbars on the right side.
Xterm man does not suggest any X resource for this.

There should be a provision to put the bars on the right side.
Can anyone tell me how is this possible?

Naimish Parikh

Kurt Wall

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Mar 1, 2004, 1:02:55 PM3/1/04

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Naimish Parikh <parikh...@rediffmail.com> wrote:
> In Solaris, when Xterm is launched with scrollbar option ON , the
> scrollbars are put on the left side by default.
> I desperately want the scrollbars on the right side.
> Xterm man does not suggest any X resource for this.

Try the option "-rightbar" on the command line. I think the resource
is vt100*RightScrollBar.

Kurt
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Naimish Parikh

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Mar 2, 2004, 6:20:46 AM3/2/04

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kw...@kurtwerks.com (Kurt Wall) wrote in message news:<gNydnWVWN45...@speakeasy.net>...

> Naimish Parikh <parikh...@rediffmail.com> wrote:
> > In Solaris, when Xterm is launched with scrollbar option ON , the
> > scrollbars are put on the left side by default.
> > I desperately want the scrollbars on the right side.
> > Xterm man does not suggest any X resource for this.
>
> Try the option "-rightbar" on the command line. I think the resource
> is vt100*RightScrollBar.
>
> Kurt

It seems that xterm does not support -rightbar switch in Solaris. But
, yes it does support -rightbar in Linux. Even the resource
RightScrollBar is not settable through -xrm switch in Solaris. I
wonder if they are giving any such resource in the first place.
I tried
-xrm "*rightScrollBar :true"
-xrm "XTerm*rightScrollBar :true"
-xrm "XTerm*vt100*rightScrollBar :true"

Can you tell if you have any other ideas?
Or if you know the places where I can find this kind of information.

Thanks
Naimish Parikh

Alan Coopersmith

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Mar 2, 2004, 1:54:34 PM3/2/04

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parikh...@rediffmail.com (Naimish Parikh) writes in comp.unix.solaris:

|It seems that xterm does not support -rightbar switch in Solaris. But
|, yes it does support -rightbar in Linux.

Then it should work with the "color-xterm" provided in the Sun Companion
CD, which is really just the XFree86 xterm, which is the xterm found on
every Linux distro I've seen.

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Thomas Dickey

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Mar 3, 2004, 6:28:37 AM3/3/04

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Alan Coopersmith <al...@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
> parikh...@rediffmail.com (Naimish Parikh) writes in comp.unix.solaris:
> |It seems that xterm does not support -rightbar switch in Solaris. But
> |, yes it does support -rightbar in Linux.

> Then it should work with the "color-xterm" provided in the Sun Companion
> CD, which is really just the XFree86 xterm, which is the xterm found on
> every Linux distro I've seen.

"color-xterm -v" would show its version. Compare with
http://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html

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