rdbm is a rust program for getting and setting a custom ron resource file.

Similar to .Xresources, rdbm will create a resources.ron in your ~/.config/ directory. You can then use rdbm to set multiple “key-value” pairs similar to .Xresources. In this case rdbm aims to replace xrdb.

Project Page

• ron Documentation
• xrdb Information

Documentation

Here is a short preview of each subcommand:

view current resource file

rdbm all

set a key-value pair

rdbm set "color0" "#222F30"

get a value

rdbm get "color0"

rdbm help page

rdbm --help
rdbm help
rdbm set --help

Project Goals

• Remove entries
• Get/Set multiple values
• Custom resource.ron path
• Group key-value pairs (similar to having URxvt*color0 and xterm*color0 in .Xresources)
• Sort entries in resource file
• Preserve order of entries in resource file