Mosaic User's Guide

Setting X Resources

X resources are usually set in a personal .Xdefaults file (in the user's home directory). Since the class name for the Mosaic application is Mosaic (with a capital M), entries in an .Xdefaults file look something like this: Mosaic*defaultHeight: 700 Mosaic*fancySelections: True Mosaic*personalAnnotationDirectory: misc/.mosaic-personal-annotations Mosaic*visitedAnchorColor: red Note that if you alter your .Xdefaults file while Mosaic is running, the changes will not take effect until you quit and re-run Mosaic. On most systems, you also need to use the command: xrdb .Xdefaults to cause the .Xdefaults file to take effect.

You will notice that this documentation describes X resources by their name, followed by a colon (:), followed by the resource data type. For example, if the resource type is integer, then the word integer should be replaced by a whole number. Here is a brief list of resource data types:

integer: A whole number, for example:; Mosaic*defaultHeight: 700
Boolean: Either True or False, for example:; Mosaic*fancySelections: True
string: A character string, for example:; Mosaic*personalAnnotationDirectory: misc/.mosaic-personal-annotations
color: The name (or number) of a color, for example:; Mosaic*visitedAnchorColor: red; Mosaic*Foreground: #000000000000
font: The name of a font, see example .Xdefaults file for examples.

For more help, see this example .Xdefaults file.

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