Thanks very much Andre. It was the -remove I was missing.

On 20 November 2014 06:27, Andre Klärner <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
> On Tue 18.11.2014 16:55:33, Paul Jolly wrote:
> > My switch in ~/.Xresources is essentially:
> >
> > Xft.dpi:196 -> ! Xft.dpi:196
> > URxvt*font: xft:DejaVuSansMono:medium:size=7:antialias=false ->
> URxvt*font:
> > xft:DejaVuSansMono:medium:size=8:antialias=false
> >
> > This is accompanied by a couple of changes to my Awesome config.
> >
> > An Awesome restart (unsurprisingly) doesn't pick up the .Xresources
> > changes.
> >
> > Any thoughts on how best to achieve this?
>
>   xrdb -remove && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
>
> While I was tinkering with my .Xresources the xrdb -merge got essential to
> me.. You definately need the -remove beforehand, as you do not replace
> Xft.dpi with a new setting, but comment it out. This way it won't override
> the existing value (you can test it with -query).
>
> Regards,
> Andre
>
> --
> Andre Klärner
>

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