Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!mordor!joyce!coco0.istc.sri.com!wohler From: wohler@coco0.istc.sri.com (Bill Wohler) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: writing your .Xdefaults file Message-ID: <12839@joyce.istc.sri.com> Date: 1 Jun 88 04:01:27 GMT Sender: nobody@joyce.istc.sri.com Reply-To: wohler@coco0.istc.sri.com.UUCP (Bill Wohler) Organization: SRI International Lines: 25 after reading X(1), and the appropriate sections in the Xlib and Toolkit documentation, i am still not clear on the subtleties of the resource manager and your .Xdefaults file. i guess my big questions is: what is the difference between '*' and '.'? for example, the X(1) documentation implies that i can read: *BoldFont: helvetica-bold14 as "make all applications helvb14" so the '*' seems to serve as a wildcard. but, it my xterm and uwm don't use it. also, xterm only recognizes xterm*font but not xterm.font. why not? other applications recognize both forms (eg. awm). i think it is the apparent inconsistencies that is confusing me. thus, what is the preferred usage? name.subclass.subclass or name*subclass.subclass or name*subclass*subclass --bw