Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!deimos.cis.ksu.edu!uxc!garcon!garcon.cso.uiuc.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Programs relying on app-defaults files (was: Re: xclipboard bug?) Message-ID: Date: 24 May 89 22:34:50 GMT References: <8905221532.AA24930@thelake.cray.com> <14104@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <232@cbnewsj.ATT.COM> Sender: news@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu Reply-To: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 11 In-reply-to: chaim@cbnewsj.ATT.COM's message of 24 May 89 15:19:13 GMT app-defaults aren't server-specific, they're host-specific. e.g., if I fire up texx2 from a Sun-3 with a -display on an Apple, texx2 reads the app-defaults from the sun, giving me a window that's too big. Of course, I can over-ride all that in my .xresources file. -- Dirk Grunwald Univ. of Illinois grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu