

Thanks again for sharing: it's proving both insightful and usefull. If the Wikipedia article is right about wild cards, and if I understand it correctly, shouldn't a line like: One last question though, about the separate lines for XTerm resources and UXTerm resources. Xresources file, customized to my own taste: I need a much bigger font for my 1080i display across the room, and I prefer scroll bars, for instance. Why didn't I have one? What's more, I found that the command "xrdb -query" listed many X resource settings: where were these settings stored? It didn't take too long to find /etc/X11/Xresources. It was like suddenly noticing that I had no belly-button. Once you brought it to my attention, I noticed my home directory had no. Xresources file operates on the X-server side, so one copy in your server's home directory will do. xtermsetrc) ? (I'm not sure there is such a thing but it seems like there should be.) A more thorough reading of the above article points out that many X-apps are run across a network: since such config files are client side, you would need a copy of them on each and every client system. My next question was why you wouldn't just use. My first thought and question was "What are Xresources, and why should I care?" Rather than bothering you, I quickly found which cleared up those basics. Thanks for your thought provoking, question raising post there, zen-subz!

Logout and login again for the settings to take effect, or, for an immediate action one could issue: XTerm*charClass: 33:48,35:48,37:48,43:48,45-47:48,64:48,95:48,126:48 1 You might have meant Execuxterm (a shell script used for setting up xterm) rather than Executerm however, that & may not work, since the desktop specification calls for something that can be directly transformed into an execvp call: The Exec key must contain a command line.
