Setting Preferences, Options, and X Resources

While preferences are the best way to set many of TotalView's features and characteristics, TotalView also lets you set features and characteristics using X resources and command-line options.

Older versions of TotalView did not have a preference system. Instead, you needed to set values in your .Xdefaults file. For example, setting totalview*autoLoadBreakpoints to true tells TotalView that is should automatically load a breakpoint file when it loads an executable. Because this option can also be set as a preference, this resource entry has been deprecated. That is, it still can be used but future releases may not support it. You can now set this variables using the CLI's dset command.

Some resources are not yet part of TotalView's preferences. The action or state set by the resource must continue to be set using an .Xdefaults file.

The X Resources chapter describes the resources you can set. Deprecated resources are not included in this appendix.

Preferences and X resources indicate states and characteristics that you intend to exist in all of your TotalView sessions. In some cases, you may want to set a state for one session or you may want to override one of your global settings. This is the function of the command-line options described in TotalView Command Syntax.

For example, you can use the -fixed_font_size to override the font size indicated in the preference in the current TotalView session. Any changes you make use an option are not remembered in other sessions.