Setting Application Resources

Resources are used by applications to set certain aspects of appearance and behavior. For example, Style Manager (dtstyle) provides resources that enable you to specify where the system looks for files containing information about color palettes:

dtstyle*paletteDirectories: /usr/dt/palettes/C \ HomeDirectory/.dt/palettes

App-default files for the desktop applications are located in the /usr/dt/app-defaults/language directory.

To Set System-Wide Resources

Add the resources to the file /etc/dt/config/language/sys.resources. (You may have to create the file.)

For example, if in /etc/dt/config/C/sys.resources you specify:

AnApplication*resource: value

then the resource AnApplication*resource will be set in each user's RESOURCE_MANAGER property at the next login.

To Set Personal Resources

1. Add the resources to the file HomeDirectory/.Xdefaults.

2. Double-click Reload Resources in the Desktop_Tools application group.

How the Desktop Loads Resources

Resources are loaded at session startup by Session Manager. For information on how Session Manager loads the resources into the RESOURCE_MANAGER, see "Loading the Session Resources".