Question on X

[Sam Rudland]

I am using Exceed to log into a server. What I want to know is if I can and where I can control the default behaviour of an xterm when someone logs in across the system, not just for myself.

[Santosh Nair_1 · Accepted solution]

What attributes are you trying to set. There are quite a few options for Xterm and several ways to set them. The first way is to set them through switches on the command line, i.e. to set the login shell and scroll bars on xterm:

/usr/sbin/X11/xterm -sb -ls

To make this the default behavior for you, then edit your $HOME/.Xdefaults and add

XTerm.LoginShell: true
XTerm.ScrollBar: true

then launch xterm from eXceed. To make this the default behavior for all users, then add the following lines to /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm:

*.LoginShell: true
*.ScrollBar: true

There are many many options for Xterm, including background and foreground colors, fonts, cursors, etc. See xterm(1) man page for more details.

-Santosh