
Should launch your xterm as your default terminal emulator with the new (search for keyboard in Unity search), hitting the key combination If you set CTRL-ALT-T as the key-combination for All Settings->Keyboard->Shortcuts->Launchers=>Launch terminal In your shell, making xterm your default terminal emulator. To set your default terminal in UNITY, simply enter gsettings set -applications.terminal exec 'xterm' Hitting CTRL-ALT-T should now start the xterm with our new default settings (if not, restart IceWM). In IceWM we simply edit the configuration file for the keyboard shortcut ( $HOME/.icewm/keys) adding the following line: key "Alt+Ctrl+t" xterm

In order to start the xterm by pressing CTRL-ALT-T, we need to set the keybord shortcut and default terminal emulator. To better control the scrolling, remember the following shortcuts:īutton on the scrollbar lets you scroll down/up, respectively, andĭraging the scrollbar is possible using the middle mouse button.

Opening a terminal (we will change the default to xterm in a minute) and starting xterm should show the effect of our changed. Xresources will have absolutely no effect. If you don’t execute this, your changes in.

In order to activate our changes, we need to load them: xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources ! add keyboard shortcuts to jump to beginning/end ! prevent jumping back to the last line with new output In order to set xterm as default terminal emulator for Ubuntu/Unity or IceWM and to make it a bit nicer (appearance and scrolling behaviour), I will give some short tips here.įirst we need to edit the $HOME/.Xresources file: ! Adjusting the font
