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In article gt0449a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Coleman) writes:
>>When I'm running X windows, can I basically change things in the file
>>.Xdefaults or change the defaults directly (font etc.) and have these 
>>changes applied to the current session without exiting X and re-entering 
>>it?
>
>Any changes that you make in the .Xdefaults file won't take effect until
>you a) restart X or b) type "xrdb .Xdefaults" to effectively read in the
>new defaults.  I believe that you can do xrdb from any xterm session and
>it will take effect.

Restarting X is pretty drastic, and certainly not necessary.  Simply
reloading the server resident resource database, i.e. 'xrdb .Xdefaults' 
won't do the trick either, because just doing that won't trigger the
application to reread the resources from the server.

All that's generally necessary is to terminate and restart the application
who's resources you've changed.

What nobody has mentioned so far is editres, which will allow you to set
resources in the running client application dynamically.  editres is a
featured addition to R5.  Motif and OpenLook based applications can easily
be editres aware, and someone even posted an announcement for an R4 port 
of editres recently.

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Kaleb Keithley                               kaleb@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov