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From: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh)
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Subject: Re: Setting colours through xrdb
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Date: 20 Sep 90 09:28:09 GMT
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In article <1990Sep19.141423.26912@funet.fi> shmulevi@tut.fi writes:
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>I tried setting colours using xrdb. In particular, I tried setting colours for
>xclock. I tried certain statements like xclock*Border: red    for example.
>But it did not work.

Whilst most window managers reparent their clients and override the borders
the other problem you have here is that you are not specifiying the border
colour properly there is no "Border" but there is a "BorderColor" and
"borderColor".

As to where you find out these things .. well to start with there's the
manual page failing that there's the Programming manual for the
widget set / toolkit that the programmer used and of course the source code!
Its also handy if you have a guru hanging around as well 8-)