morse@quark.mpr.ca (Daryl Morse) (09/13/90)
I am running Ultrix V3.1D Worksystem V2.2 and using DECwindows. I have encountered a problem with the way that dxsession stores customization settings in .Xdefaults. As you are already aware, dxsession doesn't provide menu access for customizing many of its resources, or for a great number of basic X resources. DEC acknowledges this fact in the UWS manual for Ultrix V4.0 by providing an entire chapter on customizing DECwindows via .Xdefaults. The problem that I am encountering is that dxsession wipes out the entries in the old .Xdefaults that it doesn't know about (ie. The customizations that DEC admits are necessary.), rather than merging its changes into the existing file. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a known problem with dxsession? If I want to customize my environment using .Xdefaults, must I avoid using the menu to save the changes? In the unsupported section of the manual, there is a description of xrdb. While I haven't had a chance to try it out yet, the manual seems to imply that xrdb is smart enough to edit modifications into existing defaults files. Does it work as advertised? Does dxsession use xrdb to store customization settings, or does it have some other, less sophisticated mechanism? If you have encountered this problem, and/or know of solutions to it, I would be most grateful to hear from you. Please respond via email. If there seems to be sufficient interest in this topic, I will summarize and re-post the replies. Thanks. -- Daryl Morse | Voice : (604) 293-5476 MPR Teltech Ltd. | Fax : (604) 293-5787 8999 Nelson Way, Burnaby, BC | E-Mail: morse@quark.mpr.ca Canada, V5A 4B5 | quark.mpr.ca!morse@uunet.uu.net