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- From: pd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Philip Daniels)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: About Xresources
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 16:36:27 -0000
- Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- In the 'Xspeedups' article posted recently, there is a section which reads:
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- ; Joe English (joe@trystero.art.com) :
- ; Keep your .Xresources and .Xdefaults file small. Same effect as
- ; [reducing the number of fonts].
- ;
- ; In your .Xdefaults (.Xresources) file, try just putting the minimum
- ; amount of resources that you want to have available to all your
- ; applications. For example: *reverseVideo: true
- ;
- ; Then, separate your resources into individual client-specific
- ; resource files. For Example: I store mine in $HOME/lib/app-defaults.
- ; In my .login file I set the environment variable XUSERFILESEARCHPATH:
- ; setenv XUSERFILESEARCHPATH $HOME/lib/app-defaults/%N
- ; So, when I launch an xterm, it loads it's resources from
- ; ...app-defaults/XTerm. Xdvi finds them in .../app-defaults/XDvi,
- ; and so on and so forth.
-
- Running X11R5, tcsh 6.00.01, I couldn't get this to work. (Bug in this
- version of tcsh perhaps?) However:
-
- XUSERFILESEARCHPATH=/homes/pd/lib/app-defaults/%N
- export XUSERFILESEARCHPATH
-
- in my .xsession works perfectly.
-
- - Phil.
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