From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10B461381F3 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 06:34:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7B928E0D4D; Mon, 27 May 2013 06:33:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f51.google.com (mail-wg0-f51.google.com [74.125.82.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3992CE0C43 for ; Mon, 27 May 2013 06:33:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f51.google.com with SMTP id b13so1231680wgh.6 for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 23:33:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=2DsBLyU3LyeIYIvVnm0qE2Ryp1xOiiVcPSw4hZc0PtQ=; b=xG0QA8TnzOey8e/mw5ZjPjmKUBy23SjVF4RwK93mYtoIQqjcNhz0AW0CpHl7B+uDQb FvdMp2PpHVxd3X3bTaUpaHU3b8I5ONdV+2NwQckmPy7eRtPPEjsGvA4iHOcVFvjAFWvI csqgeYbtMHX6R2nGylalNAJ1ZCx1udfrwqsHbHzbmsy9FwqVtF2KGerLpX2AolSooHAa Ggwtdb30JH2VGvdWG9JzP1Mn7rxKvO95g5au7jlxDAe0/rm04vvShQLU/fGgt6M/yymv tWHQ2M2XOHGrr7FWj9PaOSY6DGp2OKKby8V7wz/uTDzWRccR8+clYUn4l7OX7t4raGcZ Jt5g== X-Received: by 10.194.9.70 with SMTP id x6mr7547040wja.19.1369636425742; Sun, 26 May 2013 23:33:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.20.208] (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id m3sm15049183wij.5.2013.05.26.23.33.43 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 26 May 2013 23:33:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51A2FE1B.9030006@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 08:32:59 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130518 Thunderbird/17.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What does xgetdefault use flag do References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 34c79c88-030e-4f66-ba45-25577b9deb22 X-Archives-Hash: 57682339b57787e1a1a224c4285912f4 On 27/05/2013 02:47, Mr G wrote: > Am I correct that the xgetdefault use flag is needed for an application > if I want it to read Xresources and Xdefaults? Does it enable anything > else? I tried searching the forum and the web but there is too many > false positive hits to sort through. Most references to it are very old > so is it a deprecated feature? The definition for the use flag is a > little cryptic or maybe I'm a little too dumb. > > OT: This is my first post to this list and just want to say hi. I've > been stalking the list for several months now and this is by far the > most interesting and useful list I've ever subscribed to. Hello, Welcome to gentoo-user :-) USE flag xgetdefault is very little used, checking the definitions shows this: $ grep -r xgetdefault /var/portage/profiles/use.* /var/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:x11-terms/aterm:xgetdefault - Enable resources via X instead of aterm small version /var/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:x11-terms/rxvt:xgetdefault - Enable resources via X instead of rxvt small version So it's not global, and is local to only two packages - aterm and rxvt. You'll have to look in those app's docs or code to find out what they do with ./configure --enable xgetdefault, but I suppose a reasonable reading is that it uses Xresources in addition to $SOMETHING_ELSE. So to answer your original question, that flag seems to only be valid for aterm and rxvt and nothing else uses it; it will have no effect on any other package at all. It especially will NOT enable Xresources globally for all apps - it will do it just for those two -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com