Learning the vi and Vim Editors, 7th Edition

gvim in the X Window System

Users familiar with the X environment can define and use many of the tunable X features. For example, you can define many resources with the standard class definitions typically defined in the .Xdefaults file.

Caution

Note that these standard X resources are useful only for the Motif or Athena versions of the GUI. Obviously, the Windows version has no understanding of X resources. Not so obviously, X resources are not picked up by KDE or GNOME either.

A full discussion of X and how you configure and customize it has been exhaustively documented elsewhere and is beyond the scope of this book. For a brief (or not so brief) introduction to X, we suggest the X manpage.