"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: OK, you convinced me; thanks for being patient. * `-name foo' has nothing to do with application class. The two are quite orthogonal, only in some (rare) circumstances they overlap. * The xterm examples confused me because I happened to have my xterm resources as `xterm*' rather than `XTerm*'. -- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia --------------------------------+-------------------------------- Ooh, Granny, what a BIG belly-button you have!