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[JB]

Christopher Svanefalk <christopher.svanefalk <at> gmail.com> writes:

> ... 
> ...I guess I never learn to research before writing. It appears that
> some (if not all) programs with internal settings for appearance resort
> primarily to their own default settings rather than global settings
> (this seems to be the case with Thunderbird at least). Don't know if
> this can be overidden somehow.

You can specify attributes of an app and its elements individually.

I would suggest you get familiar with:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_resources

~/.Xresources       (older file used to be .Xdefaults)

http://xwinman.org/rc/Xresources

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/workshops/cool_unix/xresources.html

JB