On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Stephen Zander wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> > 1. It doesn't let you place rxvt settings in /etc/X11/Xresources
> > 2. It probably means it doesn't preprocess the files with cpp, therefore, it
> > might read settings it isn't supposed to see.
> > 3. It's nonstandard and generally just ugly and very confusing.
> >
> > It should be fixed to behave as a normal X app and use the X resources.
>
> I though the whole point of rxvt to avoid most of the xrdb stuff.
Sorry to continue a long thread, but you have now peaked my curiousity -
why is the point of rxvt to avoid xrdb? Is that part of the reason it uses
less memory? Curiousity killed the cat... Cheers.
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