[PLUG] Information sources on .Xresources and .Xdefaults

Kyle Accardi sandbox at pacifier.com
Thu Sep 11 11:53:11 UTC 2003


Rich Shepard wrote:
>   There are no man pages for ~/..Xdefaults and ~/.Xresources. I'd like to 1)
> learn the differences between the two (e.g., what each does that the other
> does not) and 2) learn the syntax so that two applications open to my
> preferred size rather than what they want. Specifically, LyX opens too small
> and xfig opens full-screen.

I believe .Xdefaults is depreciated in favor of .Xresources.  At least one 
can be a symlink to the other.

There is a tool (I can't remember the name) that will you use to click on 
parts of a running X app and it will spit out the property so you can stick 
it in your .Xresources.

I know with xfig you can specify the initail window size on startup:
from http://www.xfig.org/userman/options.html#com-sizes

-geometry [WxH]+x+y (-geom)
     Set the size and/or position of the xfig window. You may use this to 
set the size of the main xfig window, or you may instead set the size of the 
drawing canvas in inches or cm using the -pwidth and -pheight options.

--
Kyle Accardi





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