From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Where are keycodes defined for emacs -nw in X-Windows?
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 15:56:47 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4qxullul.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@vor.iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2518.1067256787.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
AM> about the syntax of "resources" (whatever they are), but doesn't seem to
AM> say whether they are compiled in with the application, are loaded from
AM> some file, or what.
> From a file.
> The user specific file should have the name ".Xresources" if I remember
> it correctly.
It's all documented in the X11 manpage, but you basically have to know the
answer in order to find it and understand it :-(
The resources are found by the application in a few files and on the
X server which keeps a "resource database". The resource database of the
server can be queried and modified with the `xrdb' command. Typically upon
login, the user's ~/.Xresources is passed to `xrdb' to load it into the
X server's database.
The application also looks at files such as
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm, and ~/.Xdefaults and then some,
depending on various envvars such as XENVIRONMENT, XFILESEARCHPATH,
XUSERFILESEARCHPATH and I'm probably forgetting some things.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-27 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-24 19:03 Slightly OT: Where are keycodes defined for emacs -nw in X-Windows? Alan Mackenzie
2003-10-24 19:25 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-24 20:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-24 20:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-10-26 10:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-10-26 16:15 ` Thomas Dickey
2003-10-28 10:16 ` Alan Mackenzie
2003-10-28 13:17 ` Thomas Dickey
2003-10-28 15:21 ` Barry Margolin
2003-10-27 9:50 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
[not found] ` <mailman.2518.1067256787.21628.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-10-27 15:56 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2003-12-03 22:20 ` Kai Grossjohann
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