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Re: XWin design suggestion

From: David Fraser <davidf at sjsoft dot com>
To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 17:03:40 +0200
Subject: Re: XWin design suggestion
References: <Pine.CYG.4.53.0305051056060.2084@WEESUSCI9812517.eesus.na.jnj.com>
Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com

Jim Drash wrote:

The appropriate place to put X configuration information already exists.
It is:

$HOME/.xinitrc
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
$HOME/.xserverrc
/etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc

Why would we break this?

In the particular case that has been discussed of storing where the last position of a dialog was, I can see that storing this in a user-editable text file isn't that nice, and you don't want to rewrite the file. So the registry is OK for that. Just about every other parameter belongs in a text file so it can be edited nicely ... good config tools should be able to change the file if neccessary. Anyone think anything else needs to go in the registry?

David

References:
- RE: XWin design suggestion
  - From: Jim Drash

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