Customizing the SAS Windowing Environment

Editing the X Resource File

When you start a SAS session, the SAS interface to Motif calls the X Resource Manager to create a resource database for that session. The interface then examines the resource database for any user-defined X resource definitions.

SAS uses the X resource file specified by the SAS$XDEFAULTS logical name. If this logical name is undefined, then SAS uses the SAS$XDEFAULTS.DAT file in your SYS$LOGIN directory.

You can customize the SAS interface to Motif by creating or adding X resource definitions to your SAS$XDEFAULTS.DAT file. (Changing the settings of the X resources in your SAS$XDEFAULTS.DAT file will not affect other X Window System applications.) For an example of an SAS$XDEFAULTS.DAT file, see the file SAS$ROOT: [MISC.BASE] SASXDEFAULTS.DAT.

Note: SAS does not use the SAS$ROOT: [MISC.BASE] SAS$XDEFAULTS.DAT file for X resource definitions. This file is only an example of X resources that you can use. [cautionend]

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