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On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Sean Porterfield wrote:

If I run x5250 and xt5250 side by side, x5250 starts off as a better size (without me altering any fonts.) xt5250 gives me the option to resize so someone who comes up behind me can read the text. I don't have that option with x5250 which means people have to lean over my shoulder to read anything on my screen.

I've been thinking about this. Since this is really a feature of xterm and not tn520 itself I'm thinking of postponing on the fly font resizing until after the 0.5 release of x5250. I really want to get 0.5 out the door since it fixes some other problems you've mentioned. Would that be problematic for you?


The two major fixes that 0.5 has are fixed typeahead and the blank screen after resizing problem. I fixed those two today. I would release 0.5, but it depends on the cvs version of tn5250. There are a couple more things I want to finish there before making a new release of tn5250. After that I'll make the 0.5 x5250 release.

You'll also note from my picture that xt5250 displays the session name from my tn5250rc file whereas x5250 displays the host name. Not a big deal on a daily basis, but not great when posting public screen shots ;)

I've looked over this and realized that xt5250 puts in the window bar title area whatever you entered on the command line. It doesn't retrieve the session name per se. x5250 doesn't either. In fact, there doesn't appear to be a way to retrieve the session name at all other than parsing the command line (which makes sense since you have to specify the session name on the command line anyway). What x5250 does retrieves the host name defined in the session unless you override that with the -title option. For example, when I start up my session for my local AS/400 I do:


x5250 -title era1 era1

Whatever follows -title will be in the title bar. The last "era1" is the session name I want to use. Note that these don't have to match. You could have:

x5250 -title "This is a test of ERA1" era1

and it would work perfectly. I include the -title option when defining the menu/icon I use to launch my x5250 sessions. Personally, I like the x5250 way better :) I don't know why I didn't remember all this a month ago when you posted the first time.

James Rich

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