Re: [help-gv] locator box

[Orion Poplawski]

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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