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From: converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Setting colours through xrdb
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Date: 19 Sep 90 15:16:39 GMT
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> In particular, I tried setting colours for
> xclock. I tried certain statements like xclock*Border: red    for example.
> But it did not work. Also, I tried xclock*Foreground, but surprisingly -
> it worked! 

You were using an incorrect resource class name for the border color.
The documentation for this is given in the X man page, under the heading
"Resources".  

If the correct resource specification doesn't work, look in the 
documentation for your window manager.  Some window managers override
the X Toolkit Intrinsics method of border color specification with their
own methods, and in this case, you will have to set the border color
through the window manager.  


Donna Converse
converse@expo.lcs.mit.edu