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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

Can you run links from the rxvt?  You can modify the rxvt in the swm menu 
(menu.sh?) by adding something like +sb to remove the scrollbar.  (It is 
there by default in rxvt, I think, but not in xterm, where -sb adds it).

man rxvt  

You can set the rxvt to be full-screen by adjusting the parameters (number 
of columns and rows, text size).  It takes some experimenting.  I think I 
already figured out full-screen and can look it up later.  You need to 
choose some font that is small enough to fit more than 80 columns in a 
full screen then vary the number of columns until you reach the maximum 
number that fit at that size.

Lynx is set to work properly in 80 columns and automatically wrap text 
(but makes sort of a mess of tables for that reason).  I posted the lynx from 
SW41 with a needed dependency or two for BL3 (extracted from a larger 
package) at my website as a .tgz.  I think it is set to work with xli in 
lynx.cfg.


On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, James Miller wrote:

> As far as preliminaries go, the following.  My laptop's screen is pretty
> tiny, and since I'm stuck at 640x480 resolution (don't think the display
> will go any higher), font size is a problem.  Using links, for example,
> many pages I tried to visit were getting pushed offscreen to the right
> because the text was not fitting.  I know how to scroll right, but that is
> really only an interim solution.  To be really useable, links should have
> text wrapping at the edge of the xterm most of the time.  I likewise got a
> pretty jumbled display viewing man pages.  So, the first item for me is
> getting some smaller fonts.  I looked around a bit through the fonts
> directory, but I wasn't really understanding it.  I did manage to get rxvt
> to display with a proportional 7x14 font, which looked ok.  But how to I
> get links to display with a smaller font?  I like the fontface links has,
> so if I can get the same one in a smaller size, I'd like to do that.
> Suggestions?
> 
> Also, links displays in a terminal window with a scrollbar on the left.
> But with links, the scrollbar is not useable.  Again, because of
> already-cramped screen real estate, I'd like to get rid of links'
> scrollbar.  How do I go about that?
> 
> Thanks, James
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