This is a VMS version of Xterm, the VT102 and Tektronix 4014 emulator for Xwindows. This version is known to work under VMS 5.1-1, 5.2 and 5.3. There are a number of features of Xterm that are not implemented under VMS either because they do not make sense in VMS or because I didn't have the time to make them work. There are two important points about the behavior of the VMS version of Xterm. o The terminal only has input focus (ie. accepts keyboard input) when the window is both selected (ie. the top of the window is highlighted) and the cursor is in the terminal window. o The display is not set in the Xterm session. This means you can not run DECwindows applications (such as XDVI) from that terminal without first typing SET DISPLAY/CREATE (or defining DECW$DISPLAY). This version of Xterm is capable of setting the terminal width and page size based on the geometry specified either in the command line or using the Xdefaults (in the file sys$login:decw$xdefautls.dat). The Xterm executable must be installed with the privileges SHARE and PHY_IO in order to do this. Starting up Xterm VMS 5.2 or before We recommend that Xterm be started when you login to your DECWindows session. To do this you can enter the following commands in the file SYS$LOGIN:DECW$LOGIN.COM $XTERM := $DISK:[DIR]XTERM.EXE $SPAWN/NOWAIT/IN=NL: XTERM [options] where DISK:[DIR] is the disk and directory where the Xterm executable resides, and [options] are any of the command line options for Xterm (see Xterm.hlp). VMS 5.3 Xterm can be started at any time from the session manager by defining an Xterm menu entry. To define an Xterm menu entry do the following: Select the Applications Definitions... item from the session manager's Customize menu. Fill in the two lines at the bottom of the dialog box as follows: Xterm RUN DISK:[DIR]XTERM.EXE Where DISK:[DIR] is the disk and directory where the Xterm excutable resides. After filling in these two lines click the ADD and OK buttons to add Xterm to the list. Select the Applications menu... item from the session manager's Customize menu and scroll down the list on the left side of the dialog box and select Xterm. After you click on the OK button Xterm will be in the session manager's Applications menu. At this point you can start an Xterm session. You can also start up one or more Xterm session at login time by choosing Xterm in the dialog box that appears when you select the Auto start... item of the session manager's Customize menu. Xdefaults You can define the Xdefaults of Xterm by entering the defaults in a file called SYS$LOGIN:DECW$XDEFAULTS.DAT (see Xterm.hlp for more information). The following is an example of this file wm*default.startupFocus: TRUE wm*flash: TRUE xterm*geometry: 80x50-10+50 xterm*c132: TRUE xterm*pointerColor: blue xterm*scrollBar: TRUE xterm*cursorColor: red xterm*Scrollbar.foreground: green xterm*borderColor: orange xterm*font: -DEC-Terminal-Medium-R-Normal--14-140-75-75-C-8-ISO8859-1 xterm*boldFont: -DEC-Terminal-Bold-R-Normal--14-140-75-75-C-8-ISO8859-1 Fonts It appears that a number of the "standard" X fonts are not available under DECWindows. In order to find which fonts are available and what their full names are, I have included a short program that prints the font names from the 75dpi directory path. This program is called LISTFONTNAMES.