Mosaic User's Guide

Basic Configuration Guide

This document describes some of the basic configuration resources available to Mosaic users. The top level documentation entry, Configuration Resources and Command-Line Flags, conatins a complete list of X resources, command-line flags, and more.

Setting X Resources

See this documentation on Setting X Resources.

Colors

The colors Mosaic uses can be configured in the standard X method. For example, executing Mosaic like this: Mosaic -bg lightgrey -fg black will cause the entire background to be light grey and the foreground text (menus, button labels, normal text, etc.) to be black. Similarly, the X resources Mosaic*Foreground and Mosaic*background could be used.

Mosaic-specific X resources allow the user to configure the color of the anchors (or hyperlinks). These include:

See this example .Xdefaults file for more help.

Fonts

The following font resources are available. The defaults are listed here. See this example .Xdefaults file for more help.

Multimedia Configuration

See this guide to Mosaic Multimedia Configuration.

Help for Slow Network Connections

If your network hardware is slow, or you find yourself retrieving documents from slow or distant servers, the following X resources will help speed things up. (You may copy these lines directly into your .Xdefaults file) 

  Mosaic*delayImageLoads: True
  Mosaic*trackVisitedAnchors: False

Location of Mosaic Files

The following resources tell Mosaic where to look for certain files. Full details are available here.

System Commands

These resources can be used to override the defaults, given here. Commands may be prepended by directory paths.

See this example .Xdefaults file for more help.

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