Tk and xdefaults on windows (prompted by Re: Tk's lack of "chrome")

On Friday 09 December 2005 13:58, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> Hans Jeuken <[email protected]> writes:
> >It's not a very serious note what i have to say,
> >but in all the shiny glittery new gui's like qt and gtk(2)
> >and wrappers like wx, somehow, i don;t find
> >perl/Tk looking old fashioned looking, as i have seen
> >other people saying in this discussion,
> >if you take a little care of your xresources file.
>
> I well thought out set of xresources can help X11
> for sure. Windows might be a little more tricky
> as core tk (as currently ported) aims to use "native look".
>

A couple of years ago i had a W98 machine and i was
sharing my linux home folder on that machines through
samba. When launching a perl/Tk script from that
shared drive on the W98 it used the settings in 
the .Xdefaults file in my homedirectory on my linux 
machine. I do not remember if all settings were correct,
but at least background colours matched.

My guess therefore is that an .Xdefaults in the root
of the drive from where you are launching the script
will be used on Windows, but i did not pursue this
then and now i don't have a Windows machine to
test. 

I don't know if anybody has been investigating this,
but would be very interested to hear experiences.

Hans
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