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From: klee@gilroy.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Getting the server defaults
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Date: 26 Jul 89 23:39:09 GMT
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In article <AUSTIN.89Jul26145511@lily.ucdavis.edu>, austin@lily.ucdavis.edu (Darren Austin) writes:
> 	In the book "Xlib Programming Manual" by Adrian Nye
> (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.) on page 345, it is shown how to get
> the defaults set by the user (using xrdb) from the server.
> Apparently these defaults are a string stored in the
> display->xdefaults field.  The book mentions that referencing
> this value directly is not a good idea as the name of the field
> may change in later releases.  However, it goes on to mention
> that there is no macro under X11 release 2 that does this for
> you. 

The X11R3 function XResourceManagerString(display) returns the resource list
set for a particular display.  For most applications, the XGetDefault() function is a simpler interface to the resources.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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