Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!ibism!ibism.UUCP!lcp From: lcp@ibism.UUCP (Larry Poleshuck) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: xrdb and motif Message-ID: <12071@ibism.uucp> Date: 2 Nov 90 22:14:02 GMT References: <1990Oct29.224040.1632@sctc.com> Sender: news@ibism.uucp Reply-To: ibism!lcp Distribution: comp.windows.x.motif Organization: Citibank IBISM Lines: 36 In article , yee@osf.org (Michael K. Yee) writes: > > In article <1990Oct29.224040.1632@sctc.com> pasturel@sctc.com (Pierre Pasturel) writes: > | xrdb -l ~/.Xdefaults does not seem to work when using the mwm. > | I have to exit the mwm session and then re-xinit for changes to > | Xdefaults to take effect. > | ... > > Yes, you currently have to restart mwm for the changes to take > place. We are looking into having a set of resources be dynamic > (i.e. dynamically change a resource while mwm is running) for Mwm > 1.2. What resources would you want to be dynamic? > ... -- However, you don't have to restart xinit to get mwm to reload the xrdb resources. You can add the f.restart function to your root menu. restart restarts mwm without affecting either you server or clients. Larry Poleshuck Citibank 111 Wall Street New York, NY 10043 Phone: 212-657-7709 Fax: 212-657-0068 E-Mail: uunet!ibism!lcp