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How to get a scrollbar in an xterm

To enable a scrollbar in your xterm window, place your mouse cursor in
the xterm window, hold down the ctrl key, and push your middle mouse
button.  This will give you a menu and one of the options is "Enable
Scroll Bar" select this option and a scroll bar will appear.
   
To have this happen automatically for all your xterms, put the following
line into a file called .Xresources

XTerm*scrollBar:        true

If you want to change the number of lines that the scroll bar keeps
track of, you can put this line in your .Xresources as well:

XTerm*SaveLines:        1000

where 1000 is the number of lines you want to be able to scroll back to.

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