6.17 Settings Affecting GUI Behavior

There are two primary ways of setting parameters which affect the look of the GUI. There is an object called taMisc which contains miscellaneous parameters and settings that affect various aspects of the PDP++ system, but mostly the graphical interface. This object can be edited by using the Settings menu option on the PDPRoot object.

In addition to the taMisc settings, there are a number of XWindow resources or Xdefaults that can be set. Also, since PDP++ uses the InterViews graphics toolkit a number of command line arguments and InterViews Xresources can also be customized (see section 9.3 Startup Arguments to PDP++).