[slightly off] xterm left margin

[Fetchinson .]

Hi all,

This is not strictly vim related but don't know where to post it (is
there an xterm list somewhere?) and thought that people here might be
knowledgeable on xterm too not only vim.

I'm using xterm (without any wrappers like gnome-terminal, etc) and
would like to set a left margin, i.e. I'd like to prevent the first
character to be immediately at the left side of the window. For
example one empty character on the left side would be great (this is
especially useful and comforting to my eyes when I use xterm in full
screen mode).

I can't find anything that I could set in .Xdefaults or .Xresources
and also can't find a suitable command line option in the manual.

Does anyone know if this is possible at all?

Cheers,
Daniel


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[Nathan Schwarz]

`man xterm | less +/border` gives:
> -b number
> This option specifies the size of the inner border (the distance between
> the outer edge of the characters and the window border) in pixels. That
> is the vt100 internalBorder resource. The default is "2".

So, for the .Xresources:
'xterm.internalBorder: $howManyPixelsYouWant'

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[Fetchinson .]

>> This is not strictly vim related but don't know where to post it (is
>> there an xterm list somewhere?) and thought that people here might be
>> knowledgeable on xterm too not only vim.
>>
>> I'm using xterm (without any wrappers like gnome-terminal, etc) and
>> would like to set a left margin, i.e. I'd like to prevent the first
>> character to be immediately at the left side of the window. For
>> example one empty character on the left side would be great (this is
>> especially useful and comforting to my eyes when I use xterm in full
>> screen mode).
>>
>> I can't find anything that I could set in .Xdefaults or .Xresources
>> and also can't find a suitable command line option in the manual.
>>
>> Does anyone know if this is possible at all?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Daniel
>
> `man xterm | less +/border` gives:
>> -b number
>> This option specifies the size of the inner border (the distance between
>> the outer edge of the characters and the window border) in pixels. That
>> is the vt100 internalBorder resource. The default is "2".
>
> So, for the .Xresources:
> 'xterm.internalBorder: $howManyPixelsYouWant'

Great, thanks a million!

Apparently my problem was that I was
googling/searching/manualreading/etc for the wrong term, I looked for
"margin" and "padding" when it is actually "border" :)

Cheers,
Daniel

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