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

Hans Jeuken <[email protected]> writes:
>> 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.

I know how basics work as I have used them myself.
You are correct that for some meaning of "home directory" 
(which isn't really a Win32 concept) it will find an .Xdefaults 
file and parse & load it - in a tk core way which isn't quite 
the way other X toolkits work. But there isn't the X11 concept 
of defaults per-Display (or per-Screen).

>
>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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