Setting Colors

• [-fg | -foreground] color
  [-bg | -background] color
  [-bd | -bordercolor] color

  Used to specify the color for window foreground, background, and border, where color is any valid string found in /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt

Setting Other Appearance Aspects

• [-g | -geometry] [widthxheight][[+ | - ]xoffset[+ | -]yoffset]

  Specifies the size and initial position of the window, where widthxheight indicates size in pixels (xterm and a few other clients interpret the numbers as columns and rows of characters rather than pixels), xoffset is interpreted as pixels relative to the left (+) or right (-) edge of the screen, and yoffset as pixels relative to the top (+) or bottom (-) screen edge

• [-bw | -borderwidth] number

  Specifies the width of the window border as an integral number of pixels

• [-fn | -font] font

  Specifies the font to use in displaying text, where font is a valid font name or font alias (see Appendix C in course text)

• [-rv | -reverse]

  Specifies that the client should simulate reverse video by swapping the foreground and background colors. Not all clients implement this option properly

  +rv

  Specifies that the client should not simulate reverse video; used to override defaults when reverse video doesn't work properly

  -iconic

  Specifies that the window should appear in iconic form rather than fully displayed. Not all window managers honor this option.

  -title name

  Specifies a title to be used by the window manager in preparing title bars or icons.

Setting Resource Information

• -name name

  Specifies an "application name" to be used instead of argv[0] in determining the name under which application resources will be found

• -xrm resource-setting

  Specifies a resource name and value to override default values without modifying the defaults file. If the string contains characters interpreted by the shell (e.g., * or \), it must be quoted

Setting Advanced Features

• <-display [host]:server[.screen]

  Specifies that the client should be displayed on some other display (rather than the one where it is invoked)

• -synchronous

  Specifies that synchronous mode should be used. This is for debugging purposes only, since it seriously degrades X's performance.

• -selectionTimeout number

  Specifies the maximum time, in milliseconds, that a client should wait for another client to respond

• -xnllanguage language-specification

  Changes the character set to support filenames and resource strings in languages other than English