MacOSX X11 Defaults
If you use MacOS X and X11 then you can get a better look with scrollbars etc. by saving the following as the .XDefaults file in your home directory. (Note the period in the front of XDefaults to make this a hidden file). We suggest using the free text editor "TextWrangler" from the creators of BBEdit as this has the ability to open hidden files and save in other formats etc. In all an excellent text editor.
## XTERM SETTINGS
## see /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html/xterm.1.html
## or man xterm
##*XTerm*deleteIsDEL: true
xterm*saveLines: 10000
xterm*scrollBar: true
xterm*rightScrollBar: true
xterm*jumpScroll: true
xterm*cursorColor: grey30
xterm*colorBD: darkblue
xterm*colorBDMode: true
xterm*highlightColor: grey70
xterm*background: #FFFBE3
xterm*activeIcon: false
xterm*awaitInput: true
xterm*scrollTtyOutput: false
xterm*scrollKey: true
## TERMINAL KEY SETTINGS
## Adjust to OSX Terminal.app behaviour
*VT100.translations: #override\
##<Key>Prior: scroll-back(1,pages) \n\
##<Key>Next: scroll-forw(1,pages)\n\
Meta <Key> K: send-signal(int) clear-saved-lines() \n\
Meta <Key> P: print() \n\
Meta <Key> minus: smaller-vt-font() \n\
Meta <Key> KP_Subtract: smaller-vt-font() \n\
Meta <Key> plus: larger-vt-font() \n\
Meta <Key> KP_Add: larger-vt-font() \n\
Meta <Key> C: select-cursor-start() \
select-cursor-end(PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
Meta <Key> V: insert-selection(PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0) \n\
Meta <Key> M: iconify() \n\
## EXTRA SETTINGS FOR XAW SCROLLBAR
## see /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xaw/Scrollbar.h
## for full reference of available recources
*Scrollbar.background: gray50
*Scrollbar.foreground: gray50
*Scrollbar.borderWidth: 0
*Scrollbar.shadowWidth: 0
*Scrollbar.thickness: 14
*Scrollbar.minimumThumb: 20
*Scrollbar.backgroundPixmap: gradient:horizontal?dimension=14&start=gray80&end=white
*Scrollbar.borderPixmap: gradient:horizontal?dimension=14&start=white&end=grey80
*Scrollbar.translations: #override\
<Btn2Down>: StartScroll(Forward) \n\
<Btn1Down>: StartScroll(Continuous) MoveThumb() NotifyThumb() \n\
<Btn3Down>: StartScroll(Backward) \n\
<Btn1Motion>: MoveThumb() NotifyThumb() \n\
<BtnUp>: NotifyScroll(Proportional) EndScroll()
