Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 19:06:27 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "adalrymp@bellsouth.net" <BryanCassidy@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .Xdefaults Message-ID: <20030630180627.GB22836@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20030630162247.GA1911@bellsouth.net> References: <20030630162247.GA1911@bellsouth.net>
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:22:47AM -0500, adalrymp@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Hello, I'm using FreeBSD 5.1 and came across something today. Say I
> wanted to make xterms background by default i could add
>=20
> XTerm*background: black
>=20
> into my ~/.Xdefaults file and it would load by default. Where would I
> go about finding out more options for more programs to place them in
> my ~/.Xdefaults file? Thanks.
The manual pages for the various X applications will usually have
quite a bit of information about what you can set in ~/.Xdefaults --
look for the section labelled 'RESOURCES'. Another place to look is
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults, where you will find the default
values for all resources for a range of applications.
Note that this functionality is generally only used for X applications
based on the Athena widget set or on the Motif libraries.
Applications using higher level X environments like Gnome or KDE tend
to have alternate mechanisms for doing this sort of thing.
Cheers,
Matthew
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