AIX

on a AIX sys i have been trying to get the mouse scroll wheel to page the terminal for about 2 yrs now on aixterm. any ideas. the below syntax does not work in aixterm but does work in xterm.

------------------------- this does not work in aixterm but does work in xterm,, with a cat Xdefult | sed 's/aixterm/xterm/g'

! Note (7/26/06): These commands below do not succeed in enabling the mouse wheel
! scrolling for Aixterm windows, but they at least get rid of the annoying string
! of beeps that was happening when ever you turned the wheel. RDJ
!
!# Scrolling on wheel mouse: half a page normally, line per line with shift
aixterm*translations: #override\n\
Shift<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>:scroll-back(1,line)\n\
Shift<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>:scroll-forw(1,line)\n\
Ctrl<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>:scroll-back(1,page)\n\
Ctrl<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>:scroll-forw(1,page)\n\
<Btn4Down>,<Btn4Up>:scroll-back(1,halfpage)\n\
<Btn5Down>,<Btn5Up>:scroll-forw(1,halfpage)\n\

!# In the scrollbar we map buttons 5 & 4 to 1 and 2 otherwise, core dump
!# This will move proportionnaly to cursor position but we dont know how to
!# program the same exact behavior as in the text widget.
aixterm*Scrollbar.translations: #override\n\
<Btn5Down>: StartScroll(Forward)\n\
<Btn4Down>: StartScroll(Backward)\n\

aixterm*Scrollbar.translations: #override\n\
Shift<Btn4Down>: scroll(-1,page) \n\
Shift<Btn5Down>: scroll(1,page) \n\
None<Btn4Down>: scroll(-5,line) \n\
None<Btn5Down>: scroll(5,line)

To be honest i have no idea, but I'd like to ask for the reason one would want to use the aixterm anyways. I always found xterm to be a lot more versatile yet available over a lot of different platforms whereas aixterm is only available on AIX, in the best possible circumstances equivalent to xterm and most probably falling short. Or is it just an "interesting" problem to chew on?

I use the following Xdefaults for xterm which makes it look and work mostly like the aixterms factory defaults:

Code:

! /*--------------------- XTerm ----------------------------------*/
XTerm*background:       steelblue
XTerm*foreground:       wheat
XTerm*cursorColor:      wheat
XTerm*font:             -ibm-roman-medium-r-normal--20-140-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1
XTerm*iconImage:        /usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xlogo16
XTerm*fullCursor:       true
XTerm*saveLines:                2000
! XTerm*scrollBar:              true
! XTerm*scrollPosition: right             // seem's not to work
! this is for displaying german umlauts
XTerm*fontMenu*font1*Label:   ISO8859-Charset
XTerm*VT100*font1: -ibm--medium-r-medium--20-14-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1

I hope this helps.

bakunin

# you might find this fun
# does random color xterms

# want aixterm because i have code for /ksh shell that lets me control multi colored text, i.e. i have have diff file types have diff colors on aixterm /tty



if [[ $# = 0 || $1 = "-rand" || $1 = "-r" ]]
then
perl -e '

$fg=rand 2**24;
do { $bg = rand
2**24 }

while (unpack("%32b*", pack "N",($bg^$fg)&0xe0e0e0) < 8);

($fg, $bg) = map { sprintf "#%06x", $_ } $fg, $bg;

exec("xterm", , "-fn", "-fg", $fg, "-bg", $bg);

' fi &


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