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Removing Terminal Scrollbar in 10.3
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Nov 21, 2003, 02:02 AM
 
Well, the title says it all. Is is possible to remove the scrollbar of a terminal window in 10.3? In 10.2, you could do this by disabling the buffer..but now the scrollbar remains.
     
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Nov 21, 2003, 11:12 AM
 
I would like to know this as well.
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Nov 21, 2003, 12:27 PM
 
sorry but i am really just curious ... why would you want to remove the scrollbar? aren`t you friends with mr. scrollbar anymore?
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Nov 21, 2003, 02:47 PM
 
I don't know an answer, but you coudl use Apple's X11 and an xterm. You can turn the scrollbar on and off with a command-line parameter on that one.
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Nov 22, 2003, 01:08 AM
 
what commandline parameter?
     
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Nov 22, 2003, 10:06 AM
 
Code:
-sb This option indicates that some number of lines that are scrolled off the top of the window should be saved and that a scrollbar should be displayed so that those lines can be viewed. This option may be turned on and off from the ``VT Options'' menu. +sb This option indicates that a scrollbar should not be displayed.
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Nov 22, 2003, 11:36 PM
 
Why no scroll bar? Well, I use a black terminal and a somewhat darkish background picture; the scroll bar and title bar really stand out. I thought it would look really cool (and also less distracting) to have a terminal window without borders. Taking off the scroll bar seemed like it should be possible; removing the title bar seems less likely (and also introduces the problem of how to move the window around).

I suppose I could use an xterm; I hadn't thought of that.

Side xterm note: besides the command line flags, you can also do a control-middle click in the window to turn on/off the scroll bar at any time.
     
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Nov 23, 2003, 12:46 AM
 
i have 2 terminals open all the time. One is running screen, with 2 screens open(one for normal shell commands and such, and the other for naim, a text based AIM client). My other terminal window is running an ssh that basically has email and a chat client. I use screen, so I can scroll up in the buffet with that. The scrollbars are a waste of space for me, besides being quite annoying.
     
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Nov 26, 2003, 02:53 PM
 
nobody knows how to do this? I could really go for a terminal with no sidebar or titlebar, but punting the scrollbar is enough to make me happy.
     
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Nov 26, 2003, 09:04 PM
 
Originally posted by sray:
Here you go:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...40229#comments
Nice. Thanks!
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