X Resources

The X resources that control the behavior and appearance of XView and Motif applications are different. XView objects may not necessarily have instance names attached to them, unlike Motif/Xt objects. XView resources are independent of instance names. For example, Window.Foreground.Color affects all relevant XView objects.

Motif/Xt resources contain either class or instance names, for example, mainframe.control_panel.button1.foreground. To make Xt resources affect more than one object, use wildcards and class names.