On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:59 PM, <gi1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 05:56:19PM -0300, Jim Diamond wrote: > > > The last time I used mrxvt, it did not use X resources. I found this > > to be a major pain, given the number of systems I use (with different > > screen sizes and resolutions) on a daily basis. Playing around with > > keeping different config files up to date in different places was some > > sort of shell game for me, and much more difficult than doing it the > > standard X way. Any chance of having the new and improved materm use > > X resources? > > Oh no... I remember "removing" this feature 10 years ago for reasons I > can't completely remember now (I think it interfered with the macro > syntax, and/or was hard to test configurations). > > I don't see myself adding it back... but I would certainly merge a patch > that doesn't break anything on my system :) >
I don't like X resources; they're pretty complicated for what you get. I'd rather configure things on the command line using a small shell script that wraps xdpyinfo, using the display resolution and font size to compute a decent initial terminal size. EG: http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/svn/hcm/trunk/terminal-window http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/svn/hcm/trunk/xterm-col-row HTH -- Dan Stromberg
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