https://github.com/nogweii/getres

Quick & dirty retrieval from X11's resource manager
https://github.com/nogweii/getres

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Quick & dirty retrieval from X11's resource manager

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/nogweii/getres
• Owner: nogweii
• Created: 2011-01-17T08:47:01.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-01-17T08:49:10.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-15T22:44:47.254Z (3 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: https://github.com/evaryont/getres
• Size: 97.7 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# getres

This is a *very* simple program, but it's fun so I did it.

## About: The History

Following the philosophy of "Do one thing well" this gets values from the

resource manager you have running on your Linux system. (Or any another system

that runs X11.) That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. Really useful for things

like scripting. And it's in C, so it's really fast!

### Rationale for this beast

Dzen. Really. It's an awesome program, and I have tons of scripts using it, but

their colors are all mixed together. No consistency. Now, I could patch dzen,

and it would be nice, but that's more work than this. And I probably won't learn

as much!

So instead of editing each shell script to sync the colors, why not just have

the theming information stored in a central location? And I already do that with

(a bit) in Xdefaults, so why not manage dzen colors via Xdefaults? I don't know

how to properly call `xrdb` so this seems like a perfectly reasonable supplement

to it.

### Usage is very 'complex'

You use it by passing the application name and the resource. For instance, if

you had the following in your `~/.Xdefaults`:

    urxvt*background: black

You could retrieve the value ('black') by calling getres as such:

    getres urxvt background

And that's it!

## Installation -- simple!

* Compile it via `make`

* Install it by copying it to somewhere in `$PATH`

## Limitations (But they aren't, really)

* Due to the use of XGetDefault, getres can not get any further than 1 level

  deep in the resource manager. So deeply nested values such as

  'xcalc.Button.Color' will not work.

* It's case sensitive, so "Urxvt" is not the same as "urxvt"

## Copyright...or what's left of it.

Licensed under the MIT/X11, see the source code 'main.c' for a copy of the

terms.