Mosaic User's Guide
Basic Configuration Guide
This document describes some of the basic configuration resources available to Mosaic users. The top level documentation entry,
Configuration Resources and Command-Line Flags,
conatins a complete list of X resources, command-line flags, and more.
Setting X Resources
See
this documentation on Setting X Resources.
Colors
The colors Mosaic uses can be configured in the standard X method. For example, executing Mosaic like this:
Mosaic -bg lightgrey -fg black
will cause the entire background to be light grey and the foreground text (menus, button labels, normal text, etc.) to be black. Similarly, the X resources
Mosaic*Foreground
and
Mosaic*background
could be used.
Mosaic-specific X resources allow the user to configure the color of the anchors (or hyperlinks). These include:
anchorColor:
color
visitedAnchorColor:
color
activeAnchorFG:
color
activeAnchorBG:
color
See this
example
.Xdefaults
file
for more help.
Fonts
The following font resources are available. The defaults are listed
here.
font:
font
italicFont:
font
boldFont:
font
fixedFont:
font
header1Font:
font
header2Font:
font
header3Font:
font
header4Font:
font
header5Font:
font
header6Font:
font
addressFont:
font
plainFont:
font
listingFont:
font
See this
example
.Xdefaults
file
for more help.
Multimedia Configuration
See this
guide to Mosaic Multimedia Configuration.
Help for Slow Network Connections
If your network hardware is slow, or you find yourself retrieving documents from slow or distant servers, the following X resources will help speed things up. (You may copy these lines directly into your
.Xdefaults
file)
Mosaic*delayImageLoads: True
Mosaic*trackVisitedAnchors: False
Location of Mosaic Files
The following resources tell Mosaic where to look for certain files. Full details are available
here.
DocsDirectory:
string
documentsMenuSpecfile:
string
globalExtensionMap:
string
globalHistoryFile:
string
globalTypeMap:
string
homeDocument:
string
personalAnnotationDirectory:
string
personalExtensionMap:
string
personalTypeMap:
string
recordCommandLocation:
string
tmpDirectory:
string
System Commands
These resources can be used to override the defaults,
given here.
Commands may be prepended by directory paths.
printCommand:
string
recordCommand:
string
sendmailCommand:
string
uncompressCommand:
string
xtermCommand:
string
See this
example
.Xdefaults
file
for more help.
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