From kde-bugs-dist  Mon Apr 19 10:30:20 1999
From: Harri Porten <porten () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:30:20 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: Bug#518: Problems with Resources set from /usr/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults/
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-bugs-dist&m=92451812119671

Ernst Kloppenburg wrote:
> 
> Maybe it is also possible to do the thing without restarting KDE
> (which is very unpleasant as in MS-Windows).

Yes. Should be possible (already running apps excluded IIRC).

> xrdb has the option '-remove' to remove Properties from the
> X-Server. But I were never able to make 'xrdb -remove' do something
> useful, everytime I tried it *all* properties were removed.
> 
> Another possibility were to get all resources with 'xrdb -query', sort
> out those we have set from /usr/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults/* and
> then load the remaining resources back to the X-server with 'xrdb
> -load'. (I would be able to program this as a shell script, but not in
> c++)

All contributions (for KDE 2.0) are very welcome. krdb really needs more
features. One would be the enable/disable krdb's effect on an
app-per-app basis.
A shell script could be rewritten in C++ (if necessary at all).

Harri.