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Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 05:10:46 -0800
From: Colin D Bennett <colin AT gibibit DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] pcb rat line thickness setting?
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On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 02:41:08 -0500
DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> wrote:

> 
> > Thanks for the tip.  The command-line option works as stated,
> > but Pcb.rat-thickness is not accepted in the
> > $HOME/.pcb/preferences file -- if I add it, it is ignored and
> > pcb doesn't write it back out when it saves the preferences
> > file.
> 
> That was from my ~/.Xdefaults.  use rat-thickness in settings or
> preferences.

OK, thanks.

By the way, I searched the pcb manual (which I should have done
first...) and found the command line option:

  --rat-thickness <num>
    Thickness of rats. Values from 1 to 19 are fixed width in
    screen pixels. Anything larger means PCB units (i.e. 100 means
    "1 mil"). Default value is 10mil. 

However, there is no mention about the contents of the
$HOME/.pcb/preferences file, or how to use ~/.Xdefaults to give pcb
settings (I used Xdefaults only once, a long time ago, and I had
forgottong about it).

Perhaps we should make mention in the manual of
(1) the available options in $HOME/.pcb/preferences, and
(2) how ~/.Xdefaults can be used to provide default pcb settings as
    if a command line option had been given.

Regards,
Colin