Re: locator box

[Silvio Levy-3]

Dear Orion

I never thanked you for this...  Having edited the executable, I never
got around to trying your suggestion until after I bought a new laptop.

It works perfectly.

So, many thanks, over two years later.

Silvio Levy

> Silvio Levy wrote:
> > I'm unable to change the font size or the background color in the
> > locator box (the place that says 295 x 117 ) using X resources.  I typed
> >
> > strings `which gv` | grep -i font > out
> >
> > then edited ALL the entries in "out" changing the font size to 180
> > instead of 120, and finally typed
> >
> > xrdb -merge out  (or -load)
> >
> > Now gv shows the information at the top (date, filename etc) with
> > the larger font, but the locator information remains resolutely tiny.
> >
> > I also tried to change to white the background color in the locator box
> > (which, perversely, is dark gray), by editing the line
> >
> > GV*locator*background:                  gray65
> >
> > Again, no change in behavior.  
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
>
> Try putting the resource entries in ~/.gv.  Don't know why it doesn't
> take them from the X resource database.
>
>
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> Orion Poplawski
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[Markus Steinborn-2]

Hello Silvio,

Silvio Levy schrieb:
> Dear Orion
>
> I never thanked you for this...  Having edited the executable, I never
> got around to trying your suggestion until after I bought a new laptop.
>
> It works perfectly.
>  
By the way: You will find the resources that are stored in the
executable in the files "/usr/share/gv/*.ad", too, So you do not need to
extract the resources from the executable.

Greetings from Germany

Markus Steinborn
GNU gv maintainer