Hi, Thanks for the info! In the meantime I managed to avoid the problem by editing the menu entry for mc replaceing it with something like this:
xterm -font insert-font-descriptor-here -e mc -c This worked fairly well. Balazs On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 02:08:40AM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: >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. > >-- >Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? > The Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act: > Feinstein's answer to Enron envy. > http://www.politechbot.com/docs/cbdtpa/hollings.s2048.032102.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
