ansi-xterm uses Xaw and I hate Xaw scrollbar. So I compiled and linked it with libneXtaw. neXtaw is nice but the scrollbar was inheriting the background color of the window, which was terrible in my case (I use white background and blue foreground all my life. Therefore white scrollbar was loosing 3D shadows and looked just horrible.). As I do not know much about the toolkit (I know motif well), it was difficult to modify the ansi- xterm code to specify a color for scrollbar.
So I took the scrollbar.c comes with mxterm and replaced the one comes with ansi-xterm. Also added my own hack so that scrollbar color can be set via X resources. It turned out that in my sub-conscious my mind I was always wanting a motif scrollbar on my xterm :).
Below is a screen shot of vim editing hello.c in ansi-xterm with motif scrollbar.
-- Muhammad A Muquit email: ma_muquit@fccc.edu Aug-09-1997