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All,

Stuck with a XTERM issue ?? For some users, who are having execute permission (valid users), it's not showing the scroll bar in the GUI. Whereas for other invalid users( who do not have the execute permission) shows the scroll bar in the GUI. Confused ??? what could be the problem ?? Even, if the valid user deletes it's login ID and try to connect again, he is able to see the scroll bar, but, only difference is he does not have execute permission for the other processes.. Pls help..

Thanks,
Rohit..

not enough info...

however, the scroll bars can enabled/disabled via CONTROL-MIDDLE-MOUSE-BUTTON-CLICK.

perhaps this is what has happened.

I have a similar problem too. I have a xterm window opening from my Java code. This xterm is opened from the code in this manner:

// to run shell command in a xterm window
public synchronized void rshd(String title, String commd) {
String xt = "xterm -sb -T ";
String xtm = xt + title + " -e " + commd;
Runtime run = Runtime.getRuntime();
System.out.println("The command is: " + xtm);
try {
run.exec(xtm);
}
catch(java.io.IOException e) {}
}

The problem I face is that when the command passed 'commd' involves remote login as in 'rsh abc.xyx.com -l user' , I do not get a scrollbar on the xterm if the user id 'user' is valid on the server 'abc.xyz.com'. If its an invalid login, I can see a scrollbar in the resulting xterm.

Can someone please help me with this issue?