The program has a few top-level application resources that allow customizations that are specific to
xmessage.file
A String specifying the file to display.
buttons
A String specifying the buttons to display. See the -buttons command-line option.
defaultButton
A String specifying a default button by label.
printValue
A Boolean value specifying whether the label of the button pressed to exit the program is written to standard output. The default is FALSE.
center
A Boolean value specifying whether to pop up the window at the center of the screen. The default is FALSE.
nearMouse
A Boolean value specifying whether to pop up the window near the mouse cursor. The default is FALSE.
timeout
The number of seconds after which to exit with status 0. The default is 0, which means never time out.
maxHeight (class Maximum)
The maximum height of the text part of the window in pixels, used if no size was specified in the geometry. The default is 0, which means use 70% of the height of the screen.
maxWidth (class Maximum)
The maximum width of the text part of the window in pixels, used if no size was specified in the geometry. The default is 0, which means use 70% of the width of the screen.