Re: [slightly off] xterm left margin

On 12-03/16:01, Fetchinson . wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is not strictly vim related but don't know where to post it (is
> there an xterm list somewhere?) and thought that people here might be
> knowledgeable on xterm too not only vim.
>
> I'm using xterm (without any wrappers like gnome-terminal, etc) and
> would like to set a left margin, i.e. I'd like to prevent the first
> character to be immediately at the left side of the window. For
> example one empty character on the left side would be great (this is
> especially useful and comforting to my eyes when I use xterm in full
> screen mode).
>
> I can't find anything that I could set in .Xdefaults or .Xresources
> and also can't find a suitable command line option in the manual.
>
> Does anyone know if this is possible at all?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel

`man xterm | less +/border` gives:
> -b number
> This option specifies the size of the inner border (the distance between
> the outer edge of the characters and the window border) in pixels. That
> is the vt100 internalBorder resource. The default is "2".

So, for the .Xresources:
'xterm.internalBorder: $howManyPixelsYouWant'

- Nathan

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