You can customize certain behaviour through the use of application defaults, which can be placed in your .Xdefaults file. You have two main categories - setting the defaults values used when exporting in LaTeX format (see section 2.21); specifying backgrounds for Parallel Editing Notifications and difference operations.
For example, to set the LaTeX export to default to article style and use colors when displaying parallel editing notifications, add the following to your .Xdefaults file:
xlincks*exportStyle: article xlincks*useColors: True
Application resources for LaTeX export:
The following resource are used if you elect to use colors (either by command line option `-c' or using the useColors application resource). They are all of resource type Pixel:
By default, Pixmaps are used for shading different backgrounds. When specifying another Bitmap, you must specify the width and height which are given in pixels. The bitmaps value is a path to a bitmap or a name of a bitmap which can be found in the standard places. The following are the names of resources and their default values: