Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 07:44:25 +0000 From: "Sergey \"DoubleF\" Zaharchenko" <doublef@tele-kom.ru> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: .Xdefaults Message-ID: <3F013BD9.4090001@tele-kom.ru> In-Reply-To: <20030630180627.GB22836@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20030630162247.GA1911@bellsouth.net> <20030630180627.GB22836@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: > 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 >> >>XTerm*background: black >> >>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 > You may also want to use editres(1) if the app supports the editres protocol (like xterm does). HTH, DoubleF
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