Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!emory!gatech!bloom-beacon!EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU!rws From: rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Question about App-defaults Message-ID: <9010221233.AA01306@expire.lcs.mit.edu> Date: 22 Oct 90 12:33:33 GMT References: Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 After a little experimentation I have convinced myself that an application default file always overrides my resource settings. This is certainly untrue (at least in a correct implementation). However, it is certainly true that it is currently not possible for the end-user to apply global overrides (viz., ones that always apply to all applications, not just a specific application class or instance). A solution to this is currently under review in the X Consortium. *Command.font: -*-new century schoolbook-bold-i-*-*-10-*- When I run it it comes up with Roman button labels. Perhaps because no fonts match? (At least, none match against my server.) The left-hand-side above should override "*Command*font:", so I think your problem here must be a bad font name. Substituting a different font in the above line properly overrides for me, anyway. Just to confuse matters if I don't download it and rely on Xlib looking for .Xdefaults, I get bold italic. Sorry, I can't explain that. Perhaps there is something else going on that you haven't told us about.