On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 12:36:05AM -0400, "Richard L. Hamilton" <rlha...@smart.net> wrote:
> As an aside, perhaps the best example of using X resources to good > effect to allow a user to adjust a program's behavior and appearance > might be the xephem program (there's a port for that!), which uses > Motif, and has GUI settings that effectively change X resources, which > it can then save for subsequent runs. > > Otherwise one would end up editing an .Xdefaults file by hand, putting > in mysterious incantations mostly by luck, unless one had studied the > source (or built libXt and libXaw (Athena Widgets) or libXm (Motif) > with editres support, so one could explore the resources and change > them on the fly). > > Properly compiled and with LD_PRELOAD pointing to the resulting .so > or .dylib, the following may add editres suport on the fly to a Motif > program. Last I checked, it worked on Solaris, and I think I've used > it on macOS, but I haven't tried that in a long time; and right now I > don't think I have a copy of gvim built to use Motif. (I almost forgot > I had this, so I'm not particularly prepared to answer questions about > it.) Ideally, it shouldn't be too mysterious. I remember seeing Xresources details in manual entries, but looking at gvim's manual entry, I don't see any Xresources specifications. :-( It must be unfashionable. The editres program seems to be a graphical Xresources editor that lets you explore the resources of a running program. But it looks very cumbersome. I'd prefer documentation and manual editing, but you can't always get what you want. :-) cheers, raf
