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Offline florian

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remove aterm scrollbar for ncurses applications
« on: December 18, 2008, 06:45:22 PM »
Obviously not a "bug" but a polishing/cosmetic touch:

when starting a ncurse applications from the tc menus (ie top, vi, xvesa setup, crypto home, terminal server, ...), it would be better to turn off the unused scrollbar (=> add the +sb flag to the aterm invokation). Less screen real-estate used is always good ;)

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Re: remove aterm scrollbar for ncurses applications
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2008, 10:14:02 PM »
I tend to remove the scrollbar from aterm in general, since Shift+PageUp/PageDown and Shift+up/down are easier to use than dragging a scrollbar in my opinion.

In $HOME/.Xdefaults:  Aterm*scrollBar: false

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Re: remove aterm scrollbar for ncurses applications
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2008, 10:19:37 PM »
Shift+PageUp/PageDown and Shift+up/down are easier to use than dragging a scrollbar in my opinion.

ooh, thank you, i never knew those! (shift+up arrow, shift+down arrow are good too.)

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Re: remove aterm scrollbar for ncurses applications
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2008, 05:41:44 AM »
Removing scrollbar in general case is a question of taste by each user.

However setting explicitely +sb makes a sense for ncurse apps launched by menus because there scroll bar has no function whatsoever.

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Re: remove aterm scrollbar for ncurses applications
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2008, 01:52:35 PM »
Removing scrollbar in general case is a question of taste by each user.

However setting explicitely +sb makes a sense for ncurse apps launched by menus because there scroll bar has no function whatsoever.

Sounds good to me.
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