There are several ways you can start a &ProductName; dtterm terminal emulator: From the Front Panel From File Manager From a command in an existing terminal window From Application Manager From New in the dtterm Window pulldown menu starting: terminal emulator closing: terminal emulator Terminal: button button: Terminal The terminal control is located in the Personal Applications subpanel. Click the terminal control. The busy light blinks indicating that the terminal is being activated. The dtterm window appears after a short time. Choose Open Terminal from the File menu. This opens dtterm with the same current directory as the File Manager view. To use a terminal emulator other than dtterm, start it from a command line in an existing terminal emulator window. At the command line prompt, type the name of the terminal emulator and any options you want. For example, to start xterm, enter: xterm [options] & options represents optional items to customize the terminal emulator. & specifies that the terminal emulator runs in the background so you can continue working in your original window while the terminal emulator is running. The terminal emulator starts in the current workspace unless directed otherwise by options. Choose New from the Window menu in an existing dtterm window. A duplicate dtterm window appears. The following command starts a dtterm window in the workspace Project Notes: dtterm -xrm '*workspaceList: "Project Notes"' & The following command starts a dtterm window on a screen on the system named "lgmcd": dtterm -display lgmcd:0.1 & Refer to the dtterm (1X) man page for details about the options available for dtterm. closing: dtterm window menu: button Type exit at the command line and press Return. Or, Choose Exit from the Window menu. Or, choose Close from the window menu pulldown menu (accessed from the button at the upper left corner of the window manager frame). Typing exit at the command line is the preferred method of closing dtterm. Closing it through the menus doesn't terminate any background processes you started from dtterm, which can sometimes cause problems. cutting: text pasting: text text: cutting and pasting Using mouse button 1, drag the pointer over the text you want to copy. The text appears highlighted. Release mouse button 1 after all the text you want to copy is highlighted. The text is not removed from its original position. Position the cursor where you want to insert the text. Click mouse button 2. A copy of the current selection is pasted at the location you indicated. You can paste additional copies by repeating the above steps. resize window Choose Window Size from Options. Choose one of the three sizes: 80x24 132x24 normal In some cases, depending on the screen size and font size you are using, you may not be able to resize the dtterm window to 132 columns. If this occurs, dtterm resizes to the maximum number of columns allowable under the circumstances. You can also resize dtterm using the Window Manager menu. resize function When you change the size of a terminal emulator window, applications running in the window may not know about the resizing. Use this procedure to resize the application's output. At the command-line prompt type: eval `resize` Enter the command to start the application at the command line prompt. The general syntax for starting an application is: application [options] & application The application name. options a list of optional information to be passed to the application. & specifies that the application runs in the background so you can continue to use the terminal emulator window while the application is running. To start a digital clock from the command line: xclock -digital & Refer to the man page or other documentation for each application to find the command and options to use for that application. Use the rlogin command in an existing terminal emulator window to log in to a remote host. Once the window is acting as a terminal to the remote host, you can run applications there, redirecting the display back to your system if you desire. The following command logs onto a system named there, runs the client xload, and redirects the display back to your original system. Assume your system is named here. rlogin there xload -display here:0 The remsh command starts a shell on a remote host, performs some client (often starting a terminal emulator on that host), and redirects the display back to your original system if desired. (Systems that don't support remsh usually sypport the equivalent rsh command.) The syntax for the remsh command is: remsh remote -n client -display system:display[.screen] where: remote The remote host name client The program you want to run on the remote host system:display[.screen] The host and display on which the results are to be displayed. The following command runs xload on the remote host named there, and directs output back to your system, here. remsh there -n /usr/bin/X11/xload -display here:0.0 & The remsh command is often used when customizing a menu to access other hosts. A resource is a variable whose value affects some attribute of dtterm. Examples of resources are foreground color, background color, height, and width. Resources are found in a resource database. Examples of dtterm resources are: Dtterm*saveLines: 4s Dtterm*scrollBar: True App-default files for the desktop applications are located in the /usr/dt/app-defaults/language directory. Resources are loaded at session start-up by Session Manager. For information on how Session Manager loads the resources into the RESOURCE_MANAGER, see "Loading the Session Resources" in the CDE Advanced User's & System Administrator's Guide. Add the resources to the file /etc/dt/config/language/sys.resources. (You may have to create the file.) For example, if in /etc/dt/config/C/sys.resources you specify: AnApplication*resource: value then the resource AnApplication*resource is set in each user's RESOURCE_MANAGER property at the next login. Add the resources to the file HomeDirectory/.Xdefaults. Double-click Reload Resources in the Desktop_Tools application group. Specify a scrollBar resource for the terminal emulator. If the value of scrollBar is True, dtterm will have scrollbars. If the value is False, it will not have scrollbars. Log out, then log back in for the current session. (For home session, set home session, log out, then log back in.) To set scrollbars in all dtterm windows: Dtterm*scrollBar: True To set scrollbars only for dtterm windows named "localTerminal": localTerminal*scrollBar: True Edit the ttyModes resource using one of the methods described in Setting dtterm Resources. The syntax for this resource is: ttyModes: ^C name where name is the control, and C is the character. For example, the default value of ttyModes is: ttyModes: erase ^H intr ^C kill ^U start ^Q stop ^S swtch ^@ Because dtterm only emulates a terminal, your control characters might not be what you are used to on a physical terminal. The ttyModes resource enables you to set control characters for your terminal emulator. By default, Login Manager sets the following control characters. Control name Character (Effect) erase ^H (Backspace erases characters) intr ^C (Interrupt - cancel the current operation and redisplay the command line prompt) kill ^U (Clear the input line) start ^Q (Start subprocess output) swtch ^@ (Switch between layers in a shell) The "^" character stands for the CTRL key, so to interrupt an operation in progress you press CTRL C. When setting ttyModes, use the ^ key instead of the CTRL key.