What is it exactly what XSETTINGS does what Xresources can't?

Wolfgang Draxinger wdraxinger.maillist at draxit.de
Wed May 12 15:24:57 PDT 2010


Hi,

the subject line says it all: I wonder, why exactly and what
for XSETTINGS is needed? I understand that it's a very good idea to
have a common way to manage UI settings, heck I'm promoting against
toolkit propriatary dotfiles since years. But isn't that what
Xresources/xrdb does?


Just curious

Wolfgang


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