KRDB V0.2 CHANGES V0.2 - use QFontInfo - general purpose files e.g. AAAMotif.ad thanks to Gerd Knorr The krdb utility provides a convenient way to manage the resources of legacy applications on your KDE desktop. Simply run krdb every time you want to update the resources of your supported apps. You can easily write application default files for your own applications. To see how, follow the example of the supplied application default file for XV which specifies xv*foreground: FOREGROUND xv*background: BACKGROUND xv*highlight: HIGHLIGHT xv*lowlight: LOWLIGHT xv*monofont: FIXED_FONT The applications resources assign variables which will be defined by krdb. The complete list of possible variables to choose from is FOREGROUND, BACKGROUND, HIGHLIGHT, LOWLIGHT, WINDOW_FOREGROUND, WINDOW_BACKGROUND, SELECT_FOREGROUND, SELECT_BACKGROUND, INACTIVE_FOREGROUND, INACTIVE_BACKGROUND, INACTIVE_BLEND, ACTIVE_FOREGROUND, ACTIVE_BACKGROUND, ACTIVE_BLEND, FONT, BOLD_FONT, ITALIC_FONT, FIXED_FONT, TITLE_FONT and FONTLIST. Their meaning should be obvious to anyone familiar with KDE's desktop wide resources. Install your application default file either in $(TDEDIR)/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults or $(HOME)/.kde/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults so that it is available to krdb for reading. If you want to override a system file simply copy it to your user directory and make amendments. The krdb utility works by putting your current KDE color and font scheme into preprocessor statements, concatenating the specially written application default files and using xrdb -merge to write to RESOURCE_MANAGER. Thus it gives a simple way to make non-KDE applications fit in with the desktop. krdb now comes with a set of general purpose configuration files for the Motif, Xaw and TK toolkits. How well these general purpose resources apply to specific applications will depend on what other application defaults are installed. If you want krdb general resource files to apply most generally you should not have application specific entries for similar resources in ~/.Xdefaults or in the system app-defaults directory e.g. /usr/lib/X11R6/app-defaults.