Re: Listing all xterm resources
Re: Listing all xterm resources
- Subject: Re: Listing all xterm resources
- From: Doug Carter <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:01:31 -0700
Thanks for taking the time for such a complete response. I've been using
X since X10, using the same Xdefaults file for years. I guess it's time
to get up to speed with the new stuff.
I'll take a look at switching over to Xresources.
Thanks again.
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 11:13:49PM -0400, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 10:28, Doug Carter <email@hidden>
> wrote:
>
> How do I get a complete list of available xterm resources? I've read
> through the xterm man page, but it seems incomplete. For example, for
> as long as I can remember, I've had this entry in my ~/.Xdefaults file:
>
> **xterm*fullCursor: ** ** true
>
> If this ever worked, it's obsolete. **I *think* it may have been from one
> of the many forks of xterm over its lifetime, some of which have been
> folded back in and others lost after the main code base implemented it in
> a different fashion or decided not to implement it at all (usually because
> of security issues, as with an ancient fork that fleshed out the original
> raw printer support). In this case, the cursorUnderline resource, which
> has the opposite meaning (that is, fullCursor: false is cursorUnderline:
> true), became the standard way to do it.
> There have been a *lot* of forks of xterm over various cursor behaviors:
> **size/shape, blinking (I used to maintain one of those), color, etc.
> While I'm at it: **the ~/.Xdefaults file has been deprecated since the
> initial release of X11R5, so I'd be more worried about obsolete resource
> names. **X11R5 and later use ~/.Xresources, which among other things is
> loaded into the X server during server startup for speed.
>
> What I'd like to find is a complete list of available xterm resources
> and their default settings.
>
> The xterm manpage distributed with X11.app / XQuartz is complete, possibly
> with the exception of some standard Xt options ("man 7 x" for those).
> --
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