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 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.
Hello, Welcome to gentoo-user :-) USE flag xgetdefault is very little used, checking the definitions shows this: $ grep -r xgetdefault /var/portage/profiles/use.* /var/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:x11-terms/aterm:xgetdefault - Enable resources via X instead of aterm small version /var/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:x11-terms/rxvt:xgetdefault - Enable resources via X instead of rxvt small version So it's not global, and is local to only two packages - aterm and rxvt. 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. So to answer your original question, that flag seems to only be valid for aterm and rxvt and nothing else uses it; it will have no effect on any other package at all. It especially will NOT enable Xresources globally for all apps - it will do it just for those two -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
