Re: it seems my Gnuplot 4.0 didn't read my ~/.Xdefaults

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 27 February 2006 06:46 pm, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> >"~/.Xdefaults-<hostname>" file for each server.
> 
> Actually, a file for each client.  I use this mechanism to
> set a different background color for each machine, so I can tell
> at a glance which windows came from which machine.  

I used to do that, but somewhere along the way I switched over
to ssh-ing from inside whatever terminal I was currently in. 
At that point it's too late to change colorschemes.
But I do have all my login scripts reset the title bar of
the current window to the machine just logged into.

> >Huh.  I see that the code does try to open such files, but apparently
> >it only does so if the window manager has not already initialized the
> >database: ...
> 
> Hmm.  That doesn't match the X manual:
> Is that a recent change to the code?

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1.1   (lhecking 26-Mar-99):   if (server_defaults)
1.1   (lhecking 26-Mar-99):      dbDef = XrmGetStringDatabase(server_defaults);
1.1   (lhecking 26-Mar-99):   else {
1.15  (lhecking 19-Oct-00):      strcat(buffer, "/.Xdefaults");
1.1   (lhecking 26-Mar-99):      dbDef = XrmGetFileDatabase(buffer);

Which I think means it dates back at least to version 3.7 days.


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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742