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Tk and xdefaults on windows (prompted by Re: Tk's lack of "chrome")
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| Hans Jeuken 2005-12-09, 7:15 pm |
| On Friday 09 December 2005 13:58, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
> Hans Jeuken <haje@toneel.demon.nl> writes:
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> I well thought out set of xresources can help X11
> for sure. Windows might be a little more tricky
> as core tk (as currently ported) aims to use "native look".
>
A couple of years ago i had a W98 machine and i was
sharing my linux home folder on that machines through
samba. When launching a perl/Tk script from that
shared drive on the W98 it used the settings in
the .Xdefaults file in my homedirectory on my linux
machine. I do not remember if all settings were correct,
but at least background colours matched.
My guess therefore is that an .Xdefaults in the root
of the drive from where you are launching the script
will be used on Windows, but i did not pursue this
then and now i don't have a Windows machine to
test.
I don't know if anybody has been investigating this,
but would be very interested to hear experiences.
Hans
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| Ben Pavon 2005-12-09, 7:15 pm |
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Hi,
Not sure about where/how the .Xdefaults file is read on Windows,
however I am sure that one can read application-specific X resource
files on Unix or Windows via the Tk::CmdLine module.
(I contributed that code a few years back.)
How to do it is in the documentation for Tk::CmdLine.
Adios,
Hans Jeuken wrote:
> On Friday 09 December 2005 13:58, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>
>
> A couple of years ago i had a W98 machine and i was
> sharing my linux home folder on that machines through
> samba. When launching a perl/Tk script from that
> shared drive on the W98 it used the settings in
> the .Xdefaults file in my homedirectory on my linux
> machine. I do not remember if all settings were correct,
> but at least background colours matched.
>
> My guess therefore is that an .Xdefaults in the root
> of the drive from where you are launching the script
> will be used on Windows, but i did not pursue this
> then and now i don't have a Windows machine to
> test.
>
> I don't know if anybody has been investigating this,
> but would be very interested to hear experiences.
>
> Hans
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<tt>Hi,<br>
<br>
Not sure about where/how the .Xdefaults file is read on Windows,<br>
however I am sure that one can read application-specific X resource<br>
files on Unix or Windows via the Tk::CmdLine module.<br>
(I contributed that code a few years back.)<br>
How to do it is in the documentation for Tk::CmdLine.<br>
<br>
Adios,<br>
<br>
Hans Jeuken wrote:</tt>
<blockquote cite="mid200512091930.52401.haje@toneel.demon.nl"
type="cite"><tt>On Friday 09 December 2005 13:58, Nick Ing-Simmons
wrote:<br>
</tt>
<blockquote type="cite"><tt>Hans Jeuken <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:haje@toneel.demon.nl"><haje@toneel.demon.nl></a>
writes:<br>
</tt>
<blockquote type="cite"><tt>It's not a very serious note what i
have to say,<br>
but in all the shiny glittery new gui's like qt and gtk(2)<br>
and wrappers like wx, somehow, i don;t find<br>
perl/Tk looking old fashioned looking, as i have seen<br>
other people saying in this discussion,<br>
if you take a little care of your xresources file.<br>
</tt></blockquote>
<tt>I well thought out set of xresources can help X11<br>
for sure. Windows might be a little more tricky<br>
as core tk (as currently ported) aims to use "native look".<br>
<br>
</tt></blockquote>
<!----><tt><br>
A couple of years ago i had a W98 machine and i was<br>
sharing my linux home folder on that machines through<br>
samba. When launching a perl/Tk script from that<br>
shared drive on the W98 it used the settings in <br>
the .Xdefaults file in my homedirectory on my linux <br>
machine. I do not remember if all settings were correct,<br>
but at least background colours matched.<br>
<br>
My guess therefore is that an .Xdefaults in the root<br>
of the drive from where you are launching the script<br>
will be used on Windows, but i did not pursue this<br>
then and now i don't have a Windows machine to<br>
test. <br>
<br>
I don't know if anybody has been investigating this,<br>
but would be very interested to hear experiences.<br>
<br>
Hans<br>
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