wohler@coco0.istc.sri.com (Bill Wohler) (06/01/88)
after reading X(1), and the appropriate sections in the Xlib and Toolkit documentation, i am still not clear on the subtleties of the resource manager and your .Xdefaults file. i guess my big questions is: what is the difference between '*' and '.'? for example, the X(1) documentation implies that i can read: *BoldFont: helvetica-bold14 as "make all applications helvb14" so the '*' seems to serve as a wildcard. but, it my xterm and uwm don't use it. also, xterm only recognizes xterm*font but not xterm.font. why not? other applications recognize both forms (eg. awm). i think it is the apparent inconsistencies that is confusing me. thus, what is the preferred usage? name.subclass.subclass or name*subclass.subclass or name*subclass*subclass --bw