I once tried to understand ~/.Xresources. Main idea is simple but the
way it's used, how all values are scattered and overwrite each other,
makes this system very messy for me. I failed to learn how one can
know what configuration can be applied to each program and with what
values. In case of xedit I had to read source code to learn that.
This is most likely a result of legacy ideas that are now obsolete or
simple make less sense on full desktop environments. I would like to
experience pure X11 at some point. I feel like there is a lot of good
ideas and knowledge to discover.
In an age of information, where will wisdom be found?
- Harold Bloom
Fortunately for xterm I have only few lines from interwebs. I'm
posting them here with few handy commands just for safekeeping.
