on Sun, Mar 31, 2002, Balazs Javor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > How does one set some individual application properties the Debian > way?
Systemwide: /etc/X11/Xresources/
User: ~/.Xdefaults or the directory that was supposed to replace it --
~/.app_defaults/ or something like that.
> If I start a console application from the Debian menues it will by
> default start in a maximized terminal window.
> Allthough what environment that terminal has I'm not quite sure of,
> as mc startc in black and white by default (without the -c switch)
> whereas it starts in color mode if I start it from within a 'normal'
> gnome or xterm.
Note that GNOME apps don't adhere to the Xt toolkit, and don't respect X
resource values. This is something of a PITA.
Not sure why mc does what it does when it does, but I've noted that too.
> I have set my default Gnome Terminal properties to some nice values,
> which I don't want to change just for mc, but could I set separate
> values for starting specific applications? e.g start in a maximized
> window and also the font size to use ...
Look into the -name directive (this is something I only learned in
recent months).
$ man X
...for slightly more information.
> I'm not an X expert, but I think this is supposed to be done with
> some Xresources somehow...
Depends on the app. X resources are somewhat a legacy tool these days.
Peace.
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