*- On 30 Jun, G. Crimp wrote about "-xrm option to X apps" > Just wondering if anyone knows what the -xrm option does for apps > that run in X. man X gives a little blurb, but it is not very clear. I've > tried a couple of experiments like: > > xterm -xrm title=foobar > > but it doesn't seem to work. The is no discussion in man X about the syntax > of expression in -xrm <expression> so I don't know if the above is correct. > > > Anyone have knowledge of this curious little command attribute ? >
It is used to set resources on the commandline. An example, xterm can have a resource of XTerm*cursorColor: green in your Xresources file. You can use the -xrm to override this on the command line like, xterm -xrm "*cursorColor:red" Now xterm can use the -cr command line switch for the cursorcolor but there are resources that do not have a command line equivalent, I didn't feel like digging through the man page. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
