Re: X resources the Debian way
Hi,
Thanks for the info!
In the meantime I managed to avoid the problem by editing
the menu entry for mc replaceing it with something like this:
xterm -font insert-font-descriptor-here -e mc -c
This worked fairly well.
Balazs
On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:08:40AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
>on Sun, Mar 31, 2002, Balazs Javor (jb3@freemail.hu) wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How does one set some individual application properties the Debian
>> way?
>
>Systemwide: /etc/X11/Xresources/
>
>User: ~/.Xdefaults or the directory that was supposed to replace it --
>~/.app_defaults/ or something like that.
>
>> If I start a console application from the Debian menues it will by
>> default start in a maximized terminal window.
>
>> Allthough what environment that terminal has I'm not quite sure of,
>> as mc startc in black and white by default (without the -c switch)
>> whereas it starts in color mode if I start it from within a 'normal'
>> gnome or xterm.
>
>Note that GNOME apps don't adhere to the Xt toolkit, and don't respect X
>resource values. This is something of a PITA.
>
>Not sure why mc does what it does when it does, but I've noted that too.
>
>> I have set my default Gnome Terminal properties to some nice values,
>> which I don't want to change just for mc, but could I set separate
>> values for starting specific applications? e.g start in a maximized
>> window and also the font size to use ...
>
>Look into the -name directive (this is something I only learned in
>recent months).
>
> $ man X
>
>...for slightly more information.
>
>
>> I'm not an X expert, but I think this is supposed to be done with
>> some Xresources somehow...
>
>Depends on the app. X resources are somewhat a legacy tool these days.
>
>Peace.
>
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