Re: Eliminating the xterm
Re: Eliminating the xterm
- Subject: Re: Eliminating the xterm
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:18:25 +0100 (CET)
+ "Andrew J. Hesford" <email@hidden>:
> > As I have said repeatedly, any xterm will read your ~/XTerm file
> > when it starts, and it is a subset of the ~/.Xresources file with
> > entries specific to xterms. [...]
>
> Yuck! Making more resource files just leads to fractured settings,
> and ultimately leads to confusion as you can't remember where you
> set what. And double yuck that ~/XTerm isn't hidden,
The idea of running another app instead of XTerm is probably not a bad
one. Another way should be to set XUSERFILESEARCHPATH in the
environment to point at some more appropriate location, such as
XUSERFILESEARCHPATH=$HOME/Library/X11/app-defaults/%N%C
which will cause xterm to look for its app-defaults file in
Library/X11/app-defaults/XTerm.
(Run "man X" and look for the section "application-specific files".
Unfortunately, that does not explain the significace of %N and %C:
IIRC, that is %N for the name of the application, and %C for the
suffic -color where appropriate. The standard location for
app-defaults files is in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/.)
- Harald
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