On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:05:00PM -0400, Decklin Foster wrote: > Alexander Samad writes: > > > I have changed my .Xresources file to look like this > > URxvt.font: a16 > > > > previously it was like > > URxvt*font: a16 > > I'm not sure why you want to use the latter version, but here is the > problem: I'm shipping a /etc/X11/app-defaults/URxvt that contains > URxvt.font. A specific resource name, such as that one, overrides a > less-specific wildcard that happens to match the same resource. So, > yours ends up having no effect. > > I could simply put URxvt*font in the app-defaults, but I'd rather not > have to then add an explanation of why such a specification is wrong and > should not be copied into your personal resources even if it happens to > work. Better alternatives would be: > > - I convince you that this is the wrong way to do it, and just add to > the FAQ item done , I was following some tut i got on the net, that was originally for xterm that i converted to rxvt
> - You convince me that the precedence rules in the parser are broken, > and I change it/get upstream to change it > > Thoughts? > > (If you don't understand the problem with *font, try it with a client > that uses both a custom text widget and toolkit widgets (in different > places in the hierarchy), such as xterm or (older versions of) Emacs.) I probably need to do more reading on this more a case of it was working before and then I upgraded and it didn't work 8( had a quick look at saw that somebody else had a similiar problem so I added my input. Thanks > > -- > things change. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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