Re: [gentoo-user] What does xgetdefault use flag do
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:58 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 27 May 2013 17:58:35 Alan McKinnon wrote: I also have no idea what small version means - it's not English, it doesn't parse, and it makes no sense. It is understandable if there is a small version of aterm. Perhaps aterm itself rather than multi-aterm? -- Peter I am still not sure if small means both small in size and small in features or just small in features. I did not build it both ways and compare, in fact, I built rxvt-unicode and the flag was completely irrelevant. Wasn't having one of my good days evidently. I have built several Gentoo systems over the last few months but they have been gentoo-hardened servers and routers. This is/was my first attempt at a desktop and it is exposing my lack of understanding of X in general. I am one of those people who find that to be a good thing and have learned a lot this week. I believe now that what that flag does is allows you to build a terminal that is small, as in lightweight on resources. You can build it so that it would not read the xdefaults files and run as a very no frills terminal even if you ran an xserver built with all the fixin's. Which is exactly what the description says and caused me to be a bit embarrassed for even have asked. By the way, this install runs great. I have 320GB hard drive on a Dual Core Dell laptop. I'm in the process of putting three seperate installs on it which will be identical except for one will be gentoo-hardened with SELinux, another using RBAC, and then this one as normal install. I believe there are some situation where RBAC has an advantage over SELinux and vice versa. I also want to try and build the RBAC system running LXC with SELinux inside the containers. I believe this is possible and would further isolate the containers from the base system. -- B G
Re: [gentoo-user] What does xgetdefault use flag do
Seriously overthought that one. I am going to blame the long weekend. Sorry for the noise On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/05/2013 18:01, Mr G wrote: You'll have to look in those app's docs or code to find out what they do with ./configure --enable xgetdefault, but I suppose a reasonable reading is that it uses Xresources in addition to $SOMETHING_ELSE. I didn't find anything concrete about what it does but I did find a reference to the fact that rxvt doesn't read the $HOME/.Xresources file if the operating system loads them into the X display. He also does not seem to be a big Gentoo fan so I am guessing this flag has something to do with this. It's the reference to the small version in the USE flag that was confusing me. I also have no idea what small version means - it's not English, it doesn't parse, and it makes no sense. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com -- B G
Re: [gentoo-user] What does xgetdefault use flag do
You'll have to look in those app's docs or code to find out what they do with ./configure --enable xgetdefault, but I suppose a reasonable reading is that it uses Xresources in addition to $SOMETHING_ELSE. I didn't find anything concrete about what it does but I did find a reference to the fact that rxvt doesn't read the $HOME/.Xresources file if the operating system loads them into the X display. He also does not seem to be a big Gentoo fan so I am guessing this flag has something to do with this. It's the reference to the small version in the USE flag that was confusing me. -- B G
[gentoo-user] What does xgetdefault use flag do
Am I correct that the xgetdefault use flag is needed for an application if I want it to read Xresources and Xdefaults? Does it enable anything else? I tried searching the forum and the web but there is too many false positive hits to sort through. Most references to it are very old so is it a deprecated feature? The definition for the use flag is a little cryptic or maybe I'm a little too dumb. OT: This is my first post to this list and just want to say hi. I've been stalking the list for several months now and this is by far the most interesting and useful list I've ever subscribed to. -- B G
