spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) (03/07/88)
Now maybe it's just me, but I'm having a difficult time figuring out
how the .Xdefaults file is used with the new format. Nowhere in the
documentation that I've looked at so far does it give any useful
examples, and in fact, I've found contradictory information that makes
me wonder whether * or . is the separator in the defaults. Limited
experimentation has failed to illustrate how it works, and I'm not
about to 1) look through source code; 2) troff and print the n-hundred
pages of the Xlib documentation just to answer these simple questions.
So, let me outline three examples, and then maybe someone who
actually knows how these things are structured would be willing
to post the correct format?
Ex. 1: I want all my xterm windows to use the 8x13 font for
BodyFont.
Ex. 2: I want "xshell" (in the contributed software) to run
xperfmon when I type the R1 key inside the shell icon.
Ex. 3: I want my xclock to have an update period of 5.
Question 1:
What do the .Xdefaults lines look like to accomplish those three
things?
Question 2:
Is the file actually named ".Xdefaults"? There is a suggestion
in the man page for Xserver that the file should be named
".Xdefaults-host". If that is the case, and since my
machine is named uther.cs.purdue.edu (that is what "gethostname"
returns), would my file need to be named ".Xdefaults-uther.cs.purdue.edu"
or could I get away with just ".Xdefaults-uther" since my
/etc/hosts file has both as entries?
Moral: It really, really helps to have examples of use in places
where people can find the easily....
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Gene Spafford
Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, W. Lafayette IN 47907-2004
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