SfinxLite TWM - Preference menu

The preference menu allows you to modify the behaviour of X11 for the duration of your current session. It contains the following choices :
Preferences
Setup
Colors
Root Pattern
Root Cursor
Edit Resources
Reread Twmrc

Setup

This brings up the xsetup program that allows you to modify the following items : These topics are covered in the xset manual page.

Colors

After selecting Background or Foreground the xcolorsel program is started for the selection of a color. Click OK when you have the right color selected.

Note that Background is the color used when the root window shows a solid color; Foreground is only used for displaying bitmaps.

Root Pattern

This pops up a submenu which allows you to choose a different pattern or image to be displayed in the background on the root window.

Most of the choices use the xbackground program, that preserves the selected settings for later sessions !! Only Default and the entries in the Special submenu are not permanent.

Root Cursor

This starts the xrootcursor program that allows you to select a different shape for the mouse pointer when it is in the root window (not very useful, but it may be fun).

Edit Resources

This pops up an editor window with the Xresources file, allowing you to edit the application preferences. After you saved the file and exited the editor, the new resources will be read for use by subsequently started applications.

Note that this does not alter the behaviour of applications that have already been started !!

Reread Twmrc

This causes TWM to reread the .twmrc configuration file. Choose this option after you have made changes to the configuration.



David.Jansen@strw.leidenuniv.nl
Last modified: Tue May 16 13:57:35 1995