Motif background

Is there a way to change the default blueish color of the Motif widows 
and menus? I'm aware of the method using X resources, but I was looking 
for a way to make all the changes in LispWorks so that a delivered 
application looks correct without any setup. Ideally, I would like for 
the window and menu backgrounds to default to the colors used by KDE or 
GNOME if that is where the application was launched.

I also noticed I can specify :background in my interface to change the 
color, but it does not change the background color of the dynamically 
generated menus. And there does not appear to be a :background initarg 
for menus. So I was hoping for some global setting I could change so it 
would not be necessary to mess with this at all.



John DeSoi, Ph.D.
http://pgedit.com/
Power Tools for PostgreSQL

Re: Motif background

On Feb 10, 2005, at 9:13 AM, John DeSoi wrote: > Is there a way to change the default blueish color of the Motif > windows and menus? I'm aware of the method using X resources, but I > was looking for a way to make all the changes in LispWorks so that a > delivered application looks correct without any setup. Ideally, I > would like for the window and menu backgrounds to default to the > colors used by KDE or GNOME if that is where the application was > launched. It appears to be possible to call xrdb at startup in a delivered app to change some of the LispWorks defaults. Are there problems with this approach? It seems I should be able to call xrdb -merge to set defaults without overriding anything the user might have set. John DeSoi, Ph.D. http://pgedit.com/ Power Tools for PostgreSQL