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

Hi,

Not sure about where/how the .Xdefaults file is read on Windows,
however I am sure that one can read application-specific X resource
files on Unix or Windows via the Tk::CmdLine module.
(I contributed that code a few years back.)
How to do it is in the documentation for Tk::CmdLine.

Adios,

Hans Jeuken wrote:

> 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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