.Xdefaults for RS/6000

[Paul Lindner]

dwatts at ki.UUCP (Dan Watts) writes:

>Being a novice X user, where does one find information on how to set up the

I've dug around with info explorer and found that a good place to start
is in the "books" section.  Choose the book "User Interface Programming
Concepts and Procedures"  From here you can travel numerous routes to
find out about the various settings of aixterm, mwm and the like.  I'm
learning how to use infoexplorer more and more every day.  It takes a 
little getting used t).  (But then again I don't strain my back on so
many heavy manuals 8^> )

>.Xdefaults file for an RS/6000?  I read all about the keywords that aixterm
>can have in this file, but I can find no references to an actual .Xdefaults
>file.  I presume the file is an ascii file that I would use my editor to make
>but what goes in it?  There must be some major keyword to identify which program
>the options are for.  A keyword of "title" is just to generic to be identified
>as "The title for an aixterm window".  I'm sure other programs like xclock also
>have keywords such as "title".  I tried a cat of the .Xdefaults file in my
>home directory but it looks like:

>XDesktop*pictureDirectory :  /usr/include/X11/bitmaps/xdt_i_large  /usr/include/
>X11/bitmaps/xdt_c_large

>Should I put in something like:

>Aixterm*title : My aixterm title

This will work if you want all of your aixterm windows to say something
besides "aixterm".  Here is what my .Xdefaults file looks like now
(A lot of these flags took a while to figure out!)

aixterm*font: courR12
aixterm*background: LightGray
Mwm*resizeBorderWidth: 5
Mwm*InteractivePlacement: True
Mwm*keyboardFocusPolicy: pointer

These settings will set the font of aixterm to a reasonable size, set the
background color to LightGray, set the resize border to something that's
not so HUGE (The default is 10 pixels!)  The last two settings make mwm
more like the twm I'm used to, i.e. I place where I want the windows
when they first pop up, and the Input focus is always where the current
mouse pointer is.

Hope this helps!

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