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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: titles in twm's IconManager
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Date: 9 Jan 90 20:26:58 GMT
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>>[Bruce]
>> I use the -n option, which specifies icon name for twm to use.
>[Chris]
>This option also changes the resource names so that the command:

No, actually it doesn't in the case of xterm.  For historical
reasons (which are probably now very inappropriate), '-n' in xterm
is *not* an abbreviation for '-name' but rather is short-hand
for '-xrm *iconName:', exactly as Bruce suggests.  I would
urge everyone to try to get out of the habit of using xterm's -n
just because it is the only client that has it, to avoid the
confusion.