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X application resources and the X Toolkit Library

Loading xresources and the libXt mechanism translation tables at the example of xterm(1) which is linking libXt.


External Docs

Local Stuff

What could it look like? -

The X11 source contains documentation for libXt.
Here an extract (gzipped postscript, ~32kB), (plain text, ~52 kB), containing the following:

You find the original (intrinsics.PS) in


XTerm control sequences (ctlseqs.ms)

This has nothing to do with libXt or Xresources but for xterm it matches well here anyway.
All the control sequences are documented in the file ctlseqs.ms, which is troff source (or nroff source resp.).

There are several ways to read it:

The appropriate groff(1) formatting options taken from:
Newsgroups: comp.terminals,comp.os.linux.admin
Message-ID: <slrn8c0cuj.f5a.m.ramsch@galadriel.forwiss.uni-passau.de>
Date: 3 Mar 2000 22:51:21 +0100
From: Martin Ramsch
Subject: Re: Escape sequences for xterm?