.Xdefaults file

Anh Ky Huynh kyanh at viettug.org
Fri Dec 25 08:39:31 UTC 2009


On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:10:26 +0000
Jamie Griffin <jg at koderize.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:45:52PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> 
> > > I think case matters here, i.e. XTerm*, not Xterm or xterm.
>  
> > Exactly the problem.  Thank you!
> 
> Curious, on my system (7.2) my ~/.Xdefaults uses lowercase
> 'xterm*...' values.
> 

You can use XTerm or xterm because both of them are use to identify xterm. You can see that when invoking `xprop` on a default xterm windows.

BTW, you can specify the windows class

	xterm -class FooBar

then you use it in the ~/.Xdefaults

	FooBar*background: black
	Foobar*fonts: ...

Regards,

-- 
Anh Ky Huynh


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