jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton) (03/23/88)
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From: jim@expo.lcs.mit.edu (Jim Fulton)
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To: rusty%velveeta.Berkeley.EDU@berkeley.edu (rusty wright)
Subject: Re: Using and Specifying Resource [gateway lossage]
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In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 22 Mar 88 19:13:46 PST.
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 88 10:06:54 EST
I'm forwarding this to XPERT since it is very useful.
> The documentation also implies/states that you can use the -name flag
> to reduce the number of lines in one's .Xwhatever file that gets loaded
> into the server with xrdb.
Thanks for pointing this out, I'll add it to the document for the next rev.
What it means is that if you set up your defaults to use the class name for a
program instead of the instance name, you can also list instance resources
under an arbitrary name that you can specify with the -name option.
For example, if you set up your resources like this:
XTerm*Font: 6x10
smallxterm*Font: 3x5
smallxterm*Geometry: 80x10
bigxterm*Font: 9x15
bigxterm*Geometry: 80x55
The following commands can be used to create xterms of different sizes:
xterm & creates a normal xterm
xterm -name smallxterm creates a small xterm
green -name bigxterm creates a big xterm
[Note, that xterm is of class "XTerm" and not "Xterm" has been logged as a bug.]
Jim
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