Re: [gentoo-user] What does xgetdefault use flag do

2013-05-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
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

Re: [gentoo-user] What does xgetdefault use flag do

2013-05-31 Thread Mr G
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

Re: [gentoo-user] What does xgetdefault use flag do

2013-05-29 Thread Mr G
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

Re: [gentoo-user] What does xgetdefault use flag do

2013-05-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 27/05/2013 02:47, Mr G wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] What does xgetdefault use flag do

2013-05-27 Thread Mr G
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

Re: [gentoo-user] What does xgetdefault use flag do

2013-05-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

[gentoo-user] What does xgetdefault use flag do

2013-05-26 Thread Mr G
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