NCSA Mosaic X Resources

Note that for each of the resources listed below, the class name is the same as the resource name except that the first character is capitalized.

Functional Resources

annotationsOnTop: Boolean

Flag to indicate whether inlined document annotation hyperlinks are prepended to the document (if true) or postpended (if false). Default is false.

autoPlaceWindows: Boolean

If set to false, new Document View windows will not be automatically positioned by the program itself (but it's still up to your window manager just how they're placed). Default is true.

catchPriorAndNext: Boolean

This resource controls whether use of the keys Prior and Next (Page Up and Page Down on most keyboards) are explicitly caught in the Document View window and passed to the vertical scrollbar or whether the normal Motif scrolled window mechanism is relied upon to do that automatically. Default is false, since that's how things are supposed to work, but if you find that Page Up/Page Down aren't doing their jobs for you, set this resource to true. (See also information on hotkeys.)

confirmDeleteAnnotation: Boolean

If false, deleting annotations will not be confirmed via a confirmation dialog box. Default is true.

confirmExit: Boolean

Whether NCSA Mosaic will pop up a dialog box to confirm exiting the program when the 'Exit Program' menu option is chosen. Default is true.

defaultAuthorName: string

String to use as your fullname (e.g., John Q. Public). Your fullname is normally stored in the system password file, and Mosaic will extract it from that if this resource is NULL; else the value of this resource will be used. Default is NULL.

defaultHeight: integer

Default height in pixels for a Document View window. Default is 680.

defaultHotlistFile: string

Name of file to store the default hotlist (or list of bookmarks). Default is ".mosaic-hotlist-default"; the value of the environment variable $HOME will be prepended to this string.

defaultWidth: integer

Default width in pixels for a Document View window. Default is 620.

delayImageLoads: Boolean

Delayed image loading is for users with slow network connections. If true, Mosaic substitutes a small icon for inlined-images, plus an arrow icon for inlined-images which also act as hyperlinks. Clicking on an icon tells Mosaic to load that inlined-image, while clicking on the arrow is equivalent to following the associated hyperlink. Selecting Load Images in Current from Mosaic's Options menu loads and displays all of the inlined-images in the current document. Delayed image loading can also be selected with the '-dil' command-line flag, or on a per-window basis from Mosaic's Options menu. Default is false.

displayURLsNotTitles: Boolean

If true, URL's will be displayed everywhere document titles are usually displayed. Default is false.

DocsDirectory: string

Can be used to override the location of the help documents. Default is NULL.

documentsMenuSpecfile: string

Name of file which holds an optional "Documents Menu Specfile," to allow sites to add their own Documents menu to Mosaic's menu bar. For more information, see information on creating a configurable Documents menu. Default is "/usr/local/lib/mosaic/documents.menu"

fancySelections: Boolean

If true, cut and paste from the Document View window will be done with fancy selections enabled in the HTML widget, which will result in underlined headers, bulleted lists, and so on. If false, normal selection behavior will be used. Default is false. (Note that this can be changed, per window, on the fly.)

fullHostname: string

This resource allows explicit setting of the fully qualified hostname for machines that crash on a call to gethostbyname(). The fullHostname resource should only be used if necessary, in conjunction with gethostbynameIsEvil.

gethostbynameIsEvil: Boolean

If you are running on a Sun set up such that, when it tries to find out it's own full hostname via gethostbyname(), it coredumps, then you should set this resource to true. Default is false.

globalExtensionMap: string

Can be set to the location of the system-wide extension map config file of your choice. Default is "/usr/local/lib/mosaic/mime.types"

globalHistoryFile: string

Name of file to store the global history of all documents visited from session to session. Default is ".mosaic-global-history"; the value of the environment variable $HOME will be prepended to this string.

globalTypeMap: string

Can be set to the location of the system-wide mailcap (type map config) file of your choice. Default is "/usr/local/lib/mosaic/mailcap"

gunzipCommand: string

Command Mosaic uses to uncompress gzip'd files (files with an extension of '.z'). Default is "gunzip -n -f", which requires version 1.2.4 of gzip. (Gunzip can be obtained from boole.stanford.edu/pub/.)

hdfMaxImageDimension: integer

Maximum height and/or width of an HDF inlined image in pixels. Default is 400.

hdfMaxDisplayedDatasets: integer

Maximum number of displayed datasets while browsing HDF files. Default is 15. If more than the maximum exist in an HDF file, Mosaic will display the HDF file in "brief mode."

hdfMaxDisplayedAttributes: integer

Maximum number of displayed attributes while browsing HDF files. Default is 10. If more than the max exist in an HDF file, Mosaic will display the HDF file in "brief mode."

hdfPowerUser: Boolean

If true, most of the supporting text in an HDF file will be removed. Default is false.

homeDocument: string

Document to access on program startup. Default is "http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html". See also information on specifying your home document.

imageCacheSize: integer

Used to set the size of the inlined-image cache in kilobytes. The '-ics' command-line flag can also be used. Default is 2048.

• All of the images in a given document will be (temporarily) cached while on that page regardless of the value of imageCacheSize.
• Cache flushes least recently viewed.

initialWindowIconic: Boolean

If set to true, the first Document View window opened (when the program starts) will be iconified. Default is false.

maxWaisResponses: integer

Controls maximum number of matches Mosaic gets from a WAIS server. Default is 200.

personalAnnotationDirectory: string

Name of directory in which to store personal annotations (as well as the log file of all personal annotations currently in existence). Default is ".mosaic-personal-annotations"; the value of the environment variable $HOME will be prepended to this string. (If the directory so named does not exist, it will be created; however, intermediate directories, if any are named, will not be created.)

personalExtensionMap: string

Can be set to the location of the personal extension map config file of your choice -- the value of the environment variable HOME is prepended to this. Default is ".mime.types"

personalTypeMap: string

Can be set to the location of the personal mailcap file of your choice -- the value of the environment variable HOME is prepended to this. Default is ".mailcap"

printCommand: string

Name of command used (by default) for the 'Print' menu option. This command is expected to accept a single argument -- the name of the file to print. Default is "lpr". (Note that this can be changed on the fly via the 'Print' option's dialog box.)

recordCommandLocation: string

Location (full path name) of the command used to record audio annotations (on Sun, SGI, and HP platforms). Default is "/usr/sbin/recordaiff" on SGI, "/usr/demo/SOUND/record" on Sun, and "/usr/audio/bin/srecorder" on HP. If the named command does not exist when Mosaic is started, audio annotations will be disabled (the menu entry will be made insensitive).

recordCommand: string

Command used to record audio annotations -- this is the full command, using the command named in recordCommandLocation as the first word. Default is "recordaiff -n 1 -s 8 -r 8000" on SGI, "record" on Sun, "srecorder -au" on HP. The command thus named is expected to accept a single additional argument: the filename of the new audio file; the command is also expected to correctly terminate recording when sent a SIGINT.

reloadReloadsImages: Boolean

If true, the Reload option will clear out cached image data for the current document before reloading the document, thus causing the images to be reloaded also. This is most useful for HTML authors using Mosaic to view their work. Default is false.

sendmailCommand: string

Points to the sendmail binary. The assumption is made that this program accepts command-line arguments specifying addresses to which messages should be mailed, and accepts other headers and message text from stdin. Default is "/usr/lib/sendmail"

simpleInterface: Boolean

Allows Mosaic's menu bar and bottom button configuration to be considerably pared down (default is false).

tmpDirectory: string

Name of directory in which to store temporary files generated by Mosaic. This directory should have plenty of space, ideally at least 10 or 20 megabytes, in case you happen to pull down a very large data file. Setting this resource is equivalent to using the command-line flag -tmpdir or setting the environment variable TMPDIR.

trackFullURLs: Boolean

If set to false, enables prototypical smart display of "where you're going" during mouse tracking, including format divination. Default is true.

trackPointerMotion: Boolean

If set to false, the mouse pointer will not be tracked so that URLs are visible on the lower status line. Default is true.

trackVisitedAnchors: Boolean

If true, visited anchors (anchors pointing to documents that have previously been viewed) will be displayed with a different style than anchors that have not yet been visited. Default is true. (On slow machines, changing this resource to false may substantially improve Mosaic's performance.)

tweakGopherTypes: Boolean

When false, Mosaic will interpret Gopher documents strictly by the Gopher typing system. When true, Mosaic will use its own mechanism to determine the file types of Gopher documents. Default is true.

twirlIncrement: integer

Indicates how many bytes (minimum) are transferred between updates of the twirling transfer icon for normal (FTP, Gopher, HTTP) transfers. Default is 4096.

twirlingTransferIcon: Boolean

Can be set to false to turn off the twirling NCSA logo during document transfers. Clicking the icon will still interrupt a transfer. Default is true.

uncompressCommand: string

Command to use to uncompress compressed files (files with an extension of '.Z'). Default is "uncompress"

useDefaultExtensionMap: Boolean

Can be set to false to keep Mosaic from having any default file-extension-to-MIME-type mappings. We strongly recommend that this resource be left true; simply overridden as necessary. Default is true.

useDefaultTypeMap: Boolean

Can be set to false to keep Mosaic from having any default MIME-type-to-external-viewer mappings. We strongly recommend that this resource be left true; simply overridden as necessary. Default is true.

useGlobalHistory: Boolean

If true, a global history of everywhere you visit is automatically stored. (This history is used to shade anchors different colors based on whether you've visited the corresponding documents or not, if resource trackVisitedAnchors is set to true) Default is true.

xtermCommand: string

Name of command used to start a terminal window for a telnet session. Default is "xterm" on most platforms; "aixterm -v" on IBM AIX 3.x systems.

Visual Resources

Background: color

Color for main background. Default is grey.

Foreground: color

Color for normal text. Default is black.

anchorColor: color

Color to shade anchors whose corresponding documents haven't been previously visited. Default is blue3.

visitedAnchorColor: color

Color to shade anchors whose corresponding documents have been previously visited. Default is violetred4.

activeAnchorFG: color

Color to shade anchors that are in the process of being activated. Default is red.

activeAnchorBG: color

Color to shade the background of anchors that are in the process of being activated. Default is grey80 (the same color as the application's background).

anchorUnderlines: integer

This can be one of {0, 1, 2, 3}, and indicates the number of lines to draw underneath unvisited anchors. Default is 1.

visitedAnchorUnderlines: integer

This can be one of {0, 1, 2, 3}, and indicates the number of lines to draw underneath visited anchors. Default is 1.

dashedAnchorUnderlines: Boolean

If true, lines drawn under unvisited anchors will be dashed. Default is false.

dashedVisitedAnchorUnderlines: Boolean

If true, lines drawn under visited anchors will be dashed. Default is true.

colorsPerInlinedImage: integer

Number of unique colors to allocate per inlined-image; default is 50. Note that this has no bearing on images that are displayed externally to NCSA Mosaic, e.g. GIF images passed to an external viewer.

percentVerticalSpace: integer

The height of vertical space between paragraphs, between headers and paragraphs, etc., expressed as a percentage of the normal line height. Default is 90.

reverseInlinedBitmapColors: Boolean

If true, reverses foreground and background colors in inlined XBM bitmaps. Default is false.

verticalScrollOnRight: Boolean

If false, the Document View window will place its scroll bar on the left side. Default is true.

font: font

Font used in normal formatted text. Default is "-adobe-times-medium-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1".

italicFont: font

Font used in italic formatted text. Default is "-adobe-times-medium-i-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1".

boldFont: font

Font used in bold formatted text. Default is "-adobe-times-bold-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1".

fixedFont: font

Font used in fixed (typewriter style) formatted text. Default is "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1".

header1Font: font

Font used in level 1 headers. Default is "-adobe-times-bold-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1".

header2Font: font

Font used in level 2 headers. Default is "-adobe-times-bold-r-normal-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1".

header3Font: font

Font used in level 3 headers. Default is "-adobe-times-bold-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1".

header4Font: font

Font used in level 4 headers. Default is "-adobe-times-bold-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1".

header5Font: font

Font used in level 5 headers. Default is "-adobe-times-bold-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1".

header6Font: font

Font used in level 6 headers. Default is "-adobe-times-bold-r-normal-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1".

addressFont: font

Font used in addresses. Default is "-adobe-times-medium-i-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1".

plainFont: font

Font used in plaintext regions or preformatted documents. Default is "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1".

listingFont: font

Font used in listing regions. Default is "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1".

fixedboldFont: font

Font used for bold in fixed (typewriter style) formatted text

fixeditalicFont: font

Font used for italic in fixed (typewriter style) formatted text

plainboldFont: font

Font used for bold in plaintext regions or preformatted documents

plainitalicFont: font

Font used for italic in plaintext regions or preformatted documents

Proxy Gateway Resources

ftpProxy: String

Proxy for ftp URLs.

gopherProxy: String

Proxy for gopher URLs.

httpProxy: String

Proxy for http URLs.

newsProxy: String

Proxy for news URLs.

waisProxy: String

Proxy for wais URLs.

ProxyGateway: String

Proxy to be used for all access methods.

PGP/PEM Encryption Resources

pemEncrypt: string

The executable Mosaic will run to perform PEM encryption.

pemDecrypt: string

The executable Mosaic will run to perform PEM decryption.

pemEntity: string

The user's PEM entity name, which should be the same as the key name given to server maintainers.

pgpEncrypt: string

The executable Mosaic will run to perform PGP encryption.

pgpDecrypt: string

The executable Mosaic will run to perform PGP decryption.

pgpEntity: string

The user's PGP entity name, which should be the same as the key name given to server maintainers.

Obsolete Resources

binaryTransferMode: Boolean

Removed in version 2.0, use Load to Local Disk from Options menu if necessary.

mailCommand: string

Replaced in version 2.0 with sendmailCommand resource.

warpPointerForIndex: Boolean

Removed in version 2.0. This is a much-requested feature, and will be re-worked eventually.

windowPerDocument: Boolean

Removed in version 2.0. New windows can be created by clicking on hyperlinks with the middle mouse button rather than the left one.

• The class name has been changed from XMosaic to Mosaic. Existing Mosaic 1.2 X resources and application defaults files should be modified accordingly.
• Information on the removal of version 1.2 multimedia X resources.

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Last Modified: 9 January 1995