On 9/27/2011 9:58 AM, Tom Roche wrote:
Tom Roche Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:14:23 +0100
summary: I'm running an up-to-date cygwin X on wxpsp3. I get both
xterm and urxvt-X to start, but cannot get either to pickup settings
from .Xdefaults or .Xresources. What am I doing wrong?
Andrew DeFaria Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:15:48 -0700 (rearranged)
Is $HOME set correctly for X?
Dunno what you mean by "for X." $HOME looks correct to me:
I merely mean that ~/.Xdefaults is the same file for both bash and X
(sometimes the setting of the HOME environment is incorrect set to
something like C:\Users\<userid> or some other Windows path).
# after starting X, in xterm
tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ echo -e "${HOME}"
Hmm... No need for all that syntactic sugar "echo $HOME" would have
achieve the necessary effect.
/home/tlroche
I would have thought an xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults would be a cure all
(provided you xrdb'ed it to the proper X server!).
Out of curiosity, what does ax xrdb -query reveal?
tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -query
tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -query | wc -l
0
tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -all -query | wc -l
0
I would not expect the X Resource DataBase to have anything in it before
you -load it
tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ cat .Xdefaults
! copy/mod from
! http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2007/09/cygwin-x-ratposoin-screen-rxvt-setup/
! https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_resources#Xterm_resources
! Note:
! * need to capitalize first letter (or 2) of application? see
! http://xwinman.org/resource.php
XTerm*background: white
! XTerm*foreground: black
XTerm*cursorColor: red
XTerm*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
XTerm*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:style=Bold
XTerm*scrollBar: True
XTerm*rightScrollBar: True
XTerm*scrollKey: True
XTerm*saveLines: 9999
XTerm*toolBar: True
!! see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Urxvt
Urxvt*background: white
Urxvt*foreground: black
! run "fc-list" for a list of available fonts
Urxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
Urxvt*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:style=Bold
URxvt*scrollBar: False
URxvt*scrollTtyOutput: False
URxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: True
URxvt*secondaryScroll: True
URxvt*saveLines: 9999
URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed
tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults
tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -query
XTerm*background: white
XTerm*cursorColor: red
XTerm*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
XTerm*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:style=Bold
XTerm*scrollBar: True
XTerm*rightScrollBar: True
XTerm*scrollKey: True
XTerm*saveLines: 9999
XTerm*toolBar: True
Urxvt*background: white
Urxvt*foreground: black
Urxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
Urxvt*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:style=Bold
URxvt*scrollBar: False
URxvt*scrollTtyOutput: False
URxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: True
URxvt*secondaryScroll: True
URxvt*saveLines: 9999
URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed
OK, so your resources are set.
But if I restart X: no change in display of xterm or urxvt-X
Why restart X? I bet restarting X will start with a fresh, empty
resource database.
Note that I agree with you - X should just be reading your ~/.Xdefaults
properly without the need to xrdb -load. What I'm trying to see is if
xrdb -load fixes the problem. IOW does X now see the resources. It
should. Then we can look at why it's not reading them from ~/.Xdefaults
automagically.
Here's some more research material:
http://www.google.com/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Xdefaults+cygwin+xorg+not+reading
<http://www.google.com/search?gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=Xdefaults+cygwin+xorg+not+reading>
And if I restart wXP: no change.
What's "wXP"? Windows XP?
BTW, instead of Xterm and Rxvt you might look into using mintty from
Cygwin itself. It's a quite nice terminal emulator.
I'll give that a try, except that I think I should solve this first: not using
.Xdefaults seems like a prior issue.
Yes, while this may solve your term needs, it solves no other X
application need so yes you should solve the problem.
Or should I instead just invoke my X apps with ginormous command lines?
Lot's of people do but I'm not a big fan of that. I believe having
control in a conf file a much better way. Sorta like the difference
between embedding CSS <style> tags vs. using a <link> to a .css file...
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
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