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Re: Widget colors [message #13861 is a reply to message #2385]

Tue, 15 December 1998 00:00

kashyap
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Registered: April 1993

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I found out that, at least on our system (SunOS 2.5+/CDE) IDL (5.1)
only looks at the .Xdefaults file, and doesn't seem to care about
the .Xresources, even when you do xrdb.. which is very strange
and probably has to do with some quirk of CDE.

Vinay

In article <367572E5.5FBB@bial1.ucsd.edu>,
David Foster <foster@bial1.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Vinay L. Kashyap wrote:
>>
>> Once upon a time, setting
>> Idl*background: <bgcolor>
>> Idl*foreground: <fgcolor>
>> in $HOME/.Xresources used to allow us to customize the colors of
>> IDL widgets on UNIX/X systems.
>>
>> Apparently, not anymore? Have the resource names changed, or are
>> there other ways to set the colors?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Vinay
>
> I believe this should still work. Did you remember to use xrdb
> to update the resources?
>
> Dave
>
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