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From: gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Imake and Xbeginners
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Date: 3 Jan 91 20:40:19 GMT
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    Date: 3 Jan 91 19:57:51 GMT
    From: dlbst1@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Donald L. Bonaddio)
    Organization: University of Pittsburgh, CIS
    Subject: Re: Imake and Xbeginners

         I am looking for a good .Xdefaults file. Does anyone have
    a neat one to send me? I am a new X user aand I don't knnow where to 
    begin.


Begin without one.  Customizing resources is a personal thing, and
there is no universal way to say that is "neat" and what is not.  I
would not advise taking someone else's resource settings and adopting
them without understanding them.  Use your X applications with the
defaults supplied by the authors.  You will find them quite useable
(and if you don't, report the bug!).  As you find things that don't
work quite the way you want, aren't the right color or size, etc.,
customize them.  The man pages will tell you the resources to set.

If you're looking for something to copy from a friend or start writing
yourself, start with .xsession (or .xinitrc, depending on how your
site is set up).

 < Stephen