xterm -help

xterm -sl 2000 -fn 6*13 -fb 6*13bold -fg darkgreen -cr red -geometry 94X26 &

-l -j -s -aw -rw +ls -rv -si -sk -sb :

+ls    login shell off
-aw    auto wraparound on
-j     jump scroll on
-l     logging off
-rv    reverse video off
-rw    reverse wraparound on
-s     multiscroll on
-sb    scrollbar on
-si    scroll-on-tty-output inhibit on
-sk    scroll-on-keypress on

usage:

/usr/openwin/bin/xterm [-options ...] [-e command args]

where options include:

-help                        print out this message

-/+132                       turn on/off column switch inhibiting
-/+ah                        turn on/off always highlight
-/+aw                        turn on/off auto wraparound
-/+cb                        turn on/off cut-to-beginning-of-line inhibit
-/+cn                        turn on/off cut newline inhibit
-/+cu                        turn on/off curses emulation
-/+im                        use insert mode for TERMCAP
-/+j                         turn on/off jump scroll
-/+l                         turn on/off logging
-/+ls                        turn on/off login shell
-/+mb                        turn on/off margin bell
-/+rv                        turn on/off reverse video
-/+rw                        turn on/off reverse wraparound
-/+s                         turn on/off multiscroll
-/+sb                        turn on/off scrollbar
-/+sf                        turn on/off Sun Function Key escape codes
-/+si                        turn on/off scroll-on-tty-output inhibit
-/+t                         turn on/off Tek emulation window
-/+ut                        turn on/off utmp inhibit
-/+vb                        turn on/off visual bell
-/+wf                        turn on/off wait for map before command exec
-C                           intercept console messages

-display displayname         X server to contact
-geometry geom               size (in characters) and position
-bg color                    background color
-fg color                    foreground color
-bd color                    border color
-bw number                   border width in pixels
-fn fontname                 normal text font
-iconic                      start iconic
-name string                 client instance, icon, and title strings
-title string                title string
-xrm resourcestring          additional resource specifications
-b number                    internal border in pixels
-cc classrange               specify additional character classes
-cr color                    text cursor color
-fb fontname                 bold text font
-lf filename                 logging filename
-mc milliseconds             multiclick time in milliseconds
-ms color                    pointer color
-nb number                   margin bell in characters from right end
-sl number                   number of scrolled lines to save
-tm string                   terminal mode keywords and characters
-tn name                     TERM environment variable name
-e command args ...          command to execute
%geom                        Tek window geometry
#geom                        icon window geometry
-T string                    title name for window
-n string                    icon name for window
-Sxxd                        slave mode on "ttyxx", file descriptor "d"

Fonts must be fixed width and, if both normal and bold are specified, must have the same size. If only a normal font is specified, it will be used for both normal and bold text (by doing overstriking). The -e option, if given, must be appear at the end of the command line, otherwise the user's default shell will be started. Options that start with a plus sign (+) restore the default.

-sl number
     This option specifies the number of lines to save that have been scrolled
     off the top of the screen. The default is 64.
-sb
     This option indicates that some number of lines that are scrolled off the
     top of the window should be saved and that a scrollbar should be
     displayed so that those lines can be viewed. This option may be turned
     on and off from the ``VT Options'' menu.
-ls
     This option indicates that the shell that is started in the xterm window
     will be a login shell (i.e., the first character of argv[0] will be a dash,
     indicating to the shell that it should read the user's .login or .profile).
-T string
     This option specifies the title for xterm's windows. It is equivalent to
     -title.
-n string
     This option specifies the icon name for xterm's windows.
-e program [ arguments ... ]
     This option specifies the program (and its command line arguments) to
     be run in the xterm window. It also sets the window title and icon name
     to be the basename of the program being executed if neither -T nor -n
     are given on the command line. This must be the last option on the
     command line.

-name name
        This option specifies the application name under which
        resources are to be obtained, rather than the default
        executable file name.  Name should not contain ``.'' or
        ``*'' characters.

-title string
        This option specifies the window title string, which  may  be
        displayed  by  window  managers  if the user so chooses.  The
        default title is the command  line  specified  after  the  -e
        option, if any, otherwise the application name.