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- From: pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter J. Scott)
- Subject: HP-VUE attitude towards X resources
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.234245.18765@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 23:42:45 GMT
-
- Numerous problems with GUI applications here can be traced to the
- resources that HP-VUE sets in the resource manager property on the
- root window. Here's a partial listing:
-
- *Font: -*-prestige-medium-r-normal-*-160-72-*
- *FontList: -*-swiss*742-medium-r-normal-*-140-*-p-110-*
- *XmText*FontList: -*-prestige-medium-r-normal-*-160-72-*
- *XmTextField*FontList: -*-prestige-medium-r-normal-*-160-72-*
- *background: #7848A075D500
- *foreground: #FFFFFFFFFFFF
- *systemFont: -*-swiss*742-medium-r-normal-*-140-*-p-110-*
- *ttyModes: erase ^H intr ^C kill ^U start ^Q stop ^S swtch ^@
- *userFont: -*-prestige-medium-r-normal-*-160-72-*
- Vuestyle.globalFont: 2
- Vuestyle.timeoutScale: 10
- Vuewm*HighResHighColor*Five*title: five
- ...etc...
- hpterm*backgroundIsSelect: True
- hpterm*makeColors: shadow
-
- This cavalier overriding of background, foreground, and font resources
- among others plays havoc with many applications. I get calls about why
- such-and-such a program is behaving weirdly, and yet it looks fine when
- I run it on the same machine and display it on the Sun. Eventually I
- trace it down to this problem. Personally I don't see the need for it; I
- haven't set resources this way on the Sun since X11R3.
-
- I'm about to recommend that everyone put "xrdb -remove" in their
- startup scripts, unless someone can come up with a way of doing the
- same thing on a per-application basis (*without* remaking the application)?
-
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- This is news. This is your | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech
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