On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 11:04:44 -0500
Hendrik Boom <hendrik@???> wrote:

> Twenty years ago X used to have a feature calles X resources, whereby
> you could load into the X server (i.e., the screen) a set or options
> keyed by a very limited kind of regular expression to specify
> verious options like fonts, default colours, and the like?
>
> Whatever happened to it?

florian@nulldevice:~$ cat .Xresources 
*faceName:            Inconsolata:size=11
xterm*Background:        beige
xterm*Foreground:        black
yeahconsole*aniDelay:        10
yeahconsole*consoleHeight:    8

Not exciting but you'll get an idea how/that it still works.

Florian