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From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X Resource Database
Keywords: resource,xrdb
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Date: 6 Jun 90 20:45:19 GMT
References: <8238@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
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In article <8238@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, hallamw@ceres.Berkeley.EDU (William
J Hallam) writes:
|> I am experiencing a problem with specifying geometry for 
|> X clients through xrdb.  Whatever geometry I specify for the
|> initial application shell is also used for every other 
|> window which that application uses subsequently.

Be careful how you specify the geometry resource.  If you use a '*'
instead of a '.', your geometry specification will apply to all
children widgets as well.

For instance,

	XRn.geometry:			580x680+460+50

is correct while

	XRn*geometry:			580x680+460+50

is probably not.

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