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Subject: Re: [9fans] p9 mice
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 11:20:45 -0600
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> What do you mean by an XWindows resource?
> Is this different from a command-line option?
> (Sorry, I know very little about X even now.)

basically X resources allow you to circumvent having to supply an
argument for each little thing you want to execute.  for example, to
let xterm understand utf8 you can either exec xterm -u8 every time or
set:

	xterm*utf8: 1

in .Xresource...

here's mine (! is a comment)

mirtchov@localrob$ cat .Xresource 
!big scrollback
xterm*SaveLines:  5000
!unicode
xterm*utf8: 1
!a reasonably reasonable font
xterm*font:     *-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-12-*-75-*

9term*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1

!close a session when connected from somewhere else
vnc*shareOption: false
mirtchov@localrob$

of course you need to merge .Xresource with the rest on startup:

mirtchov@localrob$ cat .xinitrc 
xrdb -m ~/.Xresource
plumber
exec /usr/local/plan9/bin/rio 
...