Alan,

>> > Ummm...should X Window windows have scroll bars?  
>> Not by themselves.  Scroll bars are a function of the window manager, if
>> you're running one, such as twm or fvwm.
>
>Actually, scrollbars are a function of the application.  Xterm, by
>default, doesn't use them, but you may enable them in several ways as
>folks here have pointed out.
>
I will try some of those ways today (after reading the man pages :-)

>I actually only rarely want scrollbars on my windows...  If I need to
>scroll back, I usually need to scroll about 10 lines past whatever I've
>set my limit to be...  No matter what I set my limit to be.
>

Hehe.  Murphy's Law of windows.

For me it wasn't a question of scrolling *back*, but rather seeing the 
last lines printed (scrolling *forward*).  When, for example, I list a 
directory with a lot of files in it, the top of the list stays on the 
screen right after the command prompt at which I typed "ls".  The list, 
however, runs down and then off the screen and off the monitor.  The 
bottom of the window is well below the bottom of the screen and I can not 
position the window high enough to re-size the window from the bottom.

Thanks,

Sean.


T. Sean (Theo) Schulze
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