http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/

• XQUARTZ is currently running on all undergrad machines and defaults are only set in the X11 application Preferences.

• After you have installed X11 you may want to change the default screen
• The location of XTerm defaults is /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
• The following Lines can be added to this using sudo vi XTerm or sudo pico XTerm depending on your line editor
• *saveLines: 512
• *scrollBar: true

• Adding these lines wil affect all xterm windows that are created on the machine where modified

• The same effect can be created by using the dropdown menu in X11 Under Application/Customize
• modify the Xterm line to read

Terminal xterm -sb -sl 512

• This will not affect the first window that is created by the Xterm application

-- ArthurHills - 20 Apr 2005 -- DevonMerner - 12 Feb 2013