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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: app defaults not recognized... Date: 2 Jan 1997 13:38:20 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5agdoc$6fa@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <32C81227.41C67EA6@javanet.com> <x0bubamu0n.fsf@gemini.ee.ryerson.ca> <E3CBwJ.47n@freddy.in-berlin.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.windows.x:93620 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33499 fried@freddy.in-berlin.de (Friedhelm Kappen) wrote: > >setenv XUSERFILESEARCHPATH ~/app-defaults/%N > > >in your .xxxrc file (i.e. your shell); don't forget the %N at the > >end. > > > What does %N mean? Can someone explain it to me, please? %N is the class name of the application. This is normally the name of the binary, with some obscure capitalization applied. (Clients are free to pick any name, so e.g. a client whose binary is called xterm could use Xterm, XTerm, or maybe xterm as its application class name.) Btw., you should preferably put ~/app-defaults/%N%C before the one withouth %C. %C stands for `customization', and the usual customization is to have: #ifdef COLOR *customization: -color #endif If you're searching for %N%C first, and then for %N, your client will find XTerm-color in preferance over XTerm, but only if your display is supporting colors. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)