peterson@SW.MCC.COM (James Peterson) (11/12/88)
What is the "right" way to get lots of parameter information
to an X server? Right now, from looking over the sample servers
in the X11R3 distribution, it seems that the server gets iformation
in several ways:
1. from the command line: this certainly seems reasonable for
"small" amounts of information, but also mainly for user
selections, not for installation configuration information
or large tables.
2. from environment variables. Sun server uses XDEVICE, WINDOW_PARENT,
Parallax asks for PLXMICROCODE and PLXDISPLAY.
3. from a file, os/4.2bsd/access.c uses /etc/Xn.hosts
(shouldn't this be relative to the X installed tree -- we
don't have the root permissions that would be needed to
put a file in /etc).
We are experimenting with some changes to the X server and need
to provide the server with several tables of invocation-specific
user-specified parameters. There seems to be too much info
for the command line, we're not sure we should use too many
environment variables and we don't know if we should be making
up and reading in our own files.
Is there something like .Xdefaults for the X server?
jim