thomson@hub.toronto.edu (Brian Thomson) (12/13/90)
Please excuse me if this is a stupid question, but can anyone tell me how to set up an application default file (i.e. in somewhere/X11/app-defaults/Class) that depends on the display? Specifically, I want to define a number of colours for objects if the display supports colour, but on a monochrome display some of them are indistinguishable from the black background, so I would like to default them all to white in that case. I know that I can get the desired effect if I use xrdb to merge a defaults file, because xrdb runs the C preprocessor on its input and lets me do #ifdef COLOR one thing #else another thing #endif but nothing similar is done for the files in the app-defaults directory. Any ideas out there? -- Brian Thomson, CSRI Univ. of Toronto utcsri!uthub!thomson, thomson@hub.toronto.edu