Re: Sanest way to make emacs behave on a Solaris OS

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:

> Shared logins?  Makes no sense to me.  Where is the security in
> that.

No, probably some ancient way of sharing, when a small group of
people were on a techno-science facility with a huge mainframe,
which they used to estimate the trajectories of Russian nukes...

> Anyway, since you brought up dealing with different monitor
> sizes here's how I deal with rxvt on different terminal sizes
> using xrdb and X-resources:
>
> #if ( HEIGHT == 900 )     /* Traditional Sparc */
> Rxvt.geometry: 80x55
> #elif ( HEIGHT == 1024 )  /* Sparc 21 inch */
> Rxvt.geometry: 80x65
> #elif ( HEIGHT == 768 )   /* Exceed in 1024x768 mode */
> Rxvt.geometry: 80x47
> #else                     /* I have no idea... */
> Rxvt.geometry: 80x40
> #endif

Cool - I didn't know you could branch in .Xresources. What syntax
is that - the C preprocessor?

> The man page reveals other values you can access besides HEIGHT.

What man page?

> Another person mentioned running xrdb and reading an .Xdefaults
> file.  A common problem with .Xdefaults is that it can rapidly
> accumulate huge amounts of junk.
>
> Here's how I deal with that in my .xinitrc:
>
>   cat $HOME/xdef/*.ad | xrdb -load

Doesn't that mean you don't use .Xdefaults?

> The xdef directory contains:
>
> Emacs.ad
> exmh.ad
> xterm.ad
> etc.
>
> Makes it easy to remove things you no longer use.

You mean, you remove it, by not adding it every time X starts?
What extension is .ad?

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