Re: [vile] Simplest way to set X resources for xvile when running as a remote client?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Chris G wrote:

> What's the simplest way to set the X resources for xvile running on a
> remote client?
>
> When running xvile on my desktop machine (i.e. both X client and
> server are the same machine) it's easy as the resources are in my
> ..Xresources file and get read and loaded automatically.  However this
> doesn't work with a remote client.
>
> Do I need to make a copy of the .Xresources on the remote machine and
> install and run xrdb there, or is there a simpler way?

I generally don't use xrdb, but set XAPPLRESDIR to point to my own 
app-defaults directory.  For that case, I'd have a copy of the directory
on the remote machine.

If xrdb is used, it pre-sets values which don't get overridden by the
app-defaults files (if they happen to have the same pattern).  Using
the environment variable, updates are as simple as updating the
resource file and restarting the program.

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