Re: [slightly off] xterm left margin

>> 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'

Great, thanks a million!

Apparently my problem was that I was
googling/searching/manualreading/etc for the wrong term, I looked for
"margin" and "padding" when it is actually "border" :)

Cheers,
Daniel


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