hi, thanks for plenty of useful information...

some more questions...

> The app-defaults file for "aterm" would be
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/Aterm, but no, that doesn't exist.
> Since it's an "xterm" replacement, defaults are drawn from
> /usr/X11R6/lib/app-defaults/XTerm, that is, except for the ones that
> are compiled in.
i can probably go through the source to get the info about the defaults
compiled in - i've never done nothing like this before - what should i look
for?

> The big secret is... the name for the XENVIRONMENT file on NetBSD is
> ${HOME}/.Xdefaults-$(hostname) (expanded).
i'm not sure whether i got this ok - does this mean that the "defaults" file
on my computer (name snail :o)) would have the name $HOME/.Xdefaults-snail?
but i got the .Xdefaults file from one of my colleagues, put it to my home
and it works (affects all newly ran [xa]terms...

> by the way, is there any possibility to get the name of the font used
> from the running [xa]term?
>You mean "fonts".
> appres XTerm | grep 'font.*:'
just to make it clear - i like the font used (its definition is probably
compiled in, because it's different from the one that xterm uses), but i'd
like to make it bigger, because it's quite small and hard to read on my
screen (running at 1600x1200). i don't know the font name, family and
"current" size - i'll try the appres aterm | ... as you advised but i'm not
sure whether i'll get the desired info... i do ask, because i cannot do the
test now - i don't have access to my netbsd computer now - i'll try
tomorrow...

regards,
lubos

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Lubos Vrbka
National Centre for Biomolecular Research
Masaryk university, Brno, Czech Republic

shnek@chemi.muni.cz
http://www.chemi.muni.cz/~shnek
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