Setting X Resources - HP 64782 User Manual

Setting X Resources

The Graphical User Interface is an X Window System application which
means it is a client in the X Window System client-server model.
The X server is a program that controls all access to input devices (typically a
mouse and a keyboard) and all output devices (typically a display screen). It
is an interface between application programs you run on your system and the
system input and output devices.
An X resource controls an element of appearance or behavior in an X
application. For example, in the graphical interface, one resource controls
the text in action key pushbuttons as well as the action performed when the
pushbutton is clicked.
By modifying resource settings, you can change the appearance or behavior
of certain elements in the graphical interface.
When the graphical interface starts up, it reads resource specifications from a
set of configuration files. Resources specifications in later files override
those in earlier files. Files are read in the following order:
The application defaults file. For example,
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/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/HP64_Softkey in HP-UX or
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/app-defaults/HP64_Softkey in SunOS.
The $XAPPLRESDIR/HP64_Softkey file. (The XAPPLRESDIR
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environment variable defines a directory containing system-wide
custom application defaults.)
The server's RESOURCE_MANAGER property. (The xrdb command
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loads user-defined resource specifications into the
RESOURCE_MANAGER property.)
If no RESOURCE_MANAGER property exists, user defined resource
settings are read from the $HOME/.Xdefaults file.
The file named by the XENVIRONMENT environment variable.
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If the XENVIRONMENT variable is not set, the
$HOME/.Xdefaults-host file (typically containing resource
specifications for a specific remote host) is read.
Resource specifications included in the command line with the -xrm
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option.
System scheme files in directory /usr/hp64000/lib/X11/HP64_schemes.
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