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On 27/05/2013 02:47, Mr G wrote: |
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> Am I correct that the xgetdefault use flag is needed for an application |
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> if I want it to read Xresources and Xdefaults? Does it enable anything |
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> else? I tried searching the forum and the web but there is too many |
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> false positive hits to sort through. Most references to it are very old |
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> so is it a deprecated feature? The definition for the use flag is a |
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> little cryptic or maybe I'm a little too dumb. |
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> OT: This is my first post to this list and just want to say hi. I've |
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> been stalking the list for several months now and this is by far the |
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> most interesting and useful list I've ever subscribed to. |
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Hello, |
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Welcome to gentoo-user :-) |
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USE flag xgetdefault is very little used, checking the definitions shows |
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this: |
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$ grep -r xgetdefault /var/portage/profiles/use.* |
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/var/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:x11-terms/aterm:xgetdefault - |
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Enable resources via X instead of aterm small version |
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/var/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:x11-terms/rxvt:xgetdefault - Enable |
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resources via X instead of rxvt small version |
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So it's not global, and is local to only two packages - aterm and rxvt. |
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You'll have to look in those app's docs or code to find out what they do |
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with ./configure --enable xgetdefault, but I suppose a reasonable |
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reading is that it uses Xresources in addition to $SOMETHING_ELSE. |
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So to answer your original question, that flag seems to only be valid |
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for aterm and rxvt and nothing else uses it; it will have no effect on |
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any other package at all. It especially will NOT enable Xresources |
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globally for all apps - it will do it just for those two |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |