Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!IBM.COM!MARC From: MARC@IBM.COM.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: (none) Message-ID: <8712072013.AA10911@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 14:34:37 EST Article-I.D.: ATHENA.8712072013.AA10911 Posted: Mon Dec 7 14:34:37 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 16:13:59 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 18 It seems to me that .Xdefaults would be a lot less painful if it had shell like variable substitution applied to it. This could be done in xgetdefaults. I'd propose the simplest possible form - namely $foo is an environment variable, and \$ escapes the $ when its needed. (In my application, I drag my .Xdefaults around in the distributed file system, but different machines have different size displays. I'd like to be able to compute font and geometry specs by display and put them in environment variables. This is lots better than multiple Xdefaults because it correctly factors out the variable information). Thoughts? Marc Auslander