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–WG See the –geometry option.

–WH See the –help option.

–Wi, and +Wi

These options control how an application will come up, open or closed (iconified).

Short:

Type: Boolean

Resource: Window.Iconic

Default: +Wi

Examples:

cmdtool +Wi

Makes cmdtool come up open.

cmdtool -Wi

Makes cmdtool come up closed.

–WI (uppercase i)

See the –icon_image option.

–Wl (lowercase L)

See the –label option.

–WL See the –icon_label option.

–Wp See the –position option.

–WP See the –icon_position option.

–Wr See the –display option.

–Ws See the –size option.

–Wt See the –font option.

–WT See the –icon_font option.

–Wx See the –scale option.

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–xrm This option allows the user to set resources that don’t have command-line equiva-

lents. This is similar to the –default option, but it takes only one argument, a

string in the form of resource-name:value.

Type: String

Resource: Given in the string

Default: None

Example:

cmdtool -xrm OpenWindows.ScrollbarPlacement:right

6.2 Additional Resources

The .Xdefaults file stores resource settings. We recommend that you use the command-line

arguments in order to change display characteristics rather than changing the .Xdefaults file.

Changing the resources in .Xdefaults modifies the behavior of the user’s session. Novice

users should not casually modify these settings.

Before attempting to edit the .Xdefaults file, please read the appropriate sections of the Xlib

Programming Manual on the file format and the specific properties you intend to change.

Note that resources documented in this section do not have command-line arguments. It is

possible to change these properties without altering the .Xdefaults file. The command-line

arguments -xrm and -defaults provide instructions on how to specify values for any

property. The resources that have command-line arguments are documented in the previous

section.

Introduction.Resources (Props)

This is an example of the format for the resources described in this section. This field

contains a brief description of the resource. If the resource can be modified by the

OpenWindows Property Sheet, the resource name is followed by “(Props)”.

Values: Val1, Val2 (Default). This field contains the possible values for the

resource. If the resource may contain any value, the default(s) are

provided. Defaults are shown enclosed in parentheses following the

valid values.

alarm.visible

When ringing the bell in an XView program, flash the window as well to warn the user.

Values: True, False (True)

keyboard.cancel

Values: integer

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keyboard.defaultAction

Values: integer

keyboard.inputFocusHelp

Values: integer

keyboard.nextElement

Values: integer

keyboard.deleteChar

Specifies the delete character. This resource applies to text windows only and not to

panel text items. This would work in either cmdtool or textedit or the compose

window of mailtool.

Values: C (177 = octal for Delete)

Where C is some character either typed into an editor or specified

with an octal equivalent.

keyboard.deleteLine

Specifies the delete line character. This resource applies to text windows only and not

to panel text items. This would work in either cmdtool or textedit or the com-

pose window of mailtool.

Values: C

Where C is some character either typed into an editor or specified

with an octal equivalent.

keyboard.deleteWord

Specifies the delete word character. This resource applies to text windows only and

not to panel text items. This would work in either cmdtool or textedit or the

compose window of mailtool.

Values: C (27 = octal for ˆW)

Where C is some character either typed into an editor or specified

with an octal equivalent.

mouse.modifier.button2

When using a mouse with less than three buttons, this resource gets an equivalent map-

ping for the second button which is the ADJUST button on a three button mouse. For

more information on keysyms, see the xmodmap reference manual page in the Xlib

documentation, or the include file $OPENWINHOME/include/X11/Xkeymap.h.

Values: Shift, Ctrl, any valid modifier keysym (Shift)

mouse.modifier.button3

When using a mouse with less than three buttons, this resource gets an equivalent map-

ping for the third button which is the MENU button on a three button mouse. For more

information on keysyms, see the xmodmap reference manual page, Xlib documenta-

tion, and the include file $OPENWINHOME/include/X11/Xkeymap.h.

Values: Shift, Ctrl, any valid modifier keysym (Ctrl)

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mouse.multiclick.space

Specifies the maximum number of pixels between successive mouse clicks to still have

the clicks considered as a multi-click event.

Values: N (4)

Where N is an integer between 2 and 500.

notice.beepCount

Ringing the bell can consist of either an audible beep and/or a visual flash.

Values: N (1)

Where N is an integer to specify how many times to ring the bell

when a notice appears.

notice.jumpCursor

Values: True, False

OpenWindows.3DLook.Monochrome

Values: True, False (True on all monochrome screens)

OpenWindows.3DLook.Color

When False, do not use the 3-D look on a color or grayscale screen.

Values: True, False (True on all but monochrome screens)

OpenWindows.beep (Props)

When the value is notices, the audible bell will ring only when a notice pops up. When

the value is never, the audible bell will never ring. When the value is always, the

audible bell will always ring when the bell function is called by a program.

Values: never, notices, always (always)

OpenWindows.BoldFont

Sets the font used by labels of a panel text item. If -font is specified on the command

line, then it will override the font set by OpenWindows.BoldFont. To find out

what fonts are available, use the xlsfonts command.

Values: font name

OpenWindows.dragRightDistance(Props)

Used by menus to determine when a pullright submenu would display when dragging

over the menu item near a submenu.

Values: N (100)

N is an integer greater than 0. A reasonable value might start at 20

and go to 200.

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OpenWindows.GotoMenu.UserDirs

User’s directories in Goto Menu. <string-list> is a newline separated list of full-path

directory names. Since the users home directory is always present it should not be in

this list.

Values: <string-list>

Default: <null-string>

Example:

OpenWindows.GotoMenu.UserDirs: /home/me/src0usr/openwin

OpenWindows.GotoMenu.RecentCount

Number of Recently Visited Directories Shown: where <count> is an non-negative

integer which is the number of the recently visited directories shown in the Goto

Menu. The default is 8, the maximum is 15.

Values: <count>

Default: <null-string>

Example:

OpenWindows.GotoMenu.RecentCount: 10

OpenWindows.KeyboardCommand.*

All of the OpenWindows.KeyboardCommand resource mappings may be modified

by users, or by specifying one of three values for OpenWindows.KeyboardCom-

mands: Sunview1 (which is the default), Basic, or Full. See the description for

OpenWindows.KeyboardCommands and Chapter 6, Handling Input, in the XView

Programming Manual, for more information.

OpenWindows.KeyboardCommand.Adjust

This mapping is loaded if KeyboardCommands is set to Full. This is a keyboard

Core Functions resource.

Values: Insert+Alt

OpenWindows.KeyboardCommand.Again

This is a keyboard Core Functions resource.

Values: a+Meta, a+Ctrl+Meta, L2

OpenWindows.KeyboardCommand.Copy

This is keyboard Core Functions resource.

Values: u+Meta, L4

OpenWindows.KeyboardCommand.CopyThenPaste

This is keyboard Core Functions resource. This mapping is always loaded.

Values: p+Meta

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