Re: [m17n] What makes it tick?

On Tuesday 22 October 2002 11:21 am, you wrote:

* Steven T. Hatton; on 22 Oct, 2002 wrote:

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On Tuesday 22 October 2002 10:38 am, Nettles David wrote: http://baldur.globalsymmetry.com/proprietary/com/wri/ch05.html

in http://baldur.globalsymmetry.com/proprietary/com/wri/ch05s06.html you mention editing system resources have you tried the $HOME/.Xdefaults sorry I cannot try it as I do not use XMathemtica yet fonts and UTF-8 is my problem alos so you are not alone

! GENERAL GUI STYLE / COLOR SETTINGS ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

! Choose your GUI widget background color. ! CDE: Comment this out. ! your choice !*background: #c0c0c0

!Suggestion XMathematica*background: #c0c0c0

! Choose a font for buttons/text fields, etc. ! You can use xfontsel to get a listing of fonts. !*Menu*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*

! Or just set all the fonts at once. !*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-* ! Your setting !*fontList: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*

! suggestion XMathematica*fontList: -*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*

I hope you don't mind my putting this on the SuSE-e list. I thought it was worth discussing here. The reason I don't like messing with ~/.Xdefaults to adjust settings for a single program is because it seems to violate the notion of containment. As much as possible, I believe, we should keep the configuration of programs isolated in their own 'space'. There are exceptions to this, and I do sometimes put settings for applications in /etc/profile.local, which violates my own philosophy to an extent. If I start scattering settings all over the place, I am sure to forget what all I changed. I've also run into some /interesting/ problems with Xsession startup, and my ~/.* configuration files. I set things there, and found they were not being read, and/or remembered. The startkde script was eating them for lunch. I spent hours, and hours trying to figure out exactly what was happeneing. The very mention of xmodmap in the wrong context can throw me into a violent rage. ;-) But that's a different history. -- STH Hatton's Law: There is only One inviolable Law.