Re: .Xdefaults file

2009-12-25 Thread Anh Ky Huynh
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:10:26 + Jamie Griffin j...@koderize.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:45:52PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: I think case matters here, i.e. XTerm*, not Xterm or xterm. Exactly the problem. Thank you! Curious, on my system (7.2) my ~/.Xdefaults uses

Re: .Xdefaults file

2009-12-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:10:26PM +, Jamie Griffin wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:45:52PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: I think case matters here, i.e. XTerm*, not Xterm or xterm. Exactly the problem. Thank you! Curious, on my system (7.2) my ~/.Xdefaults uses lowercase 'xterm

.Xdefaults file

2009-12-22 Thread Rem P Roberti
On my desktop box I settled on an xterm font and font size by experimenting thus: xterm -fa 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono' -fs 10 I went through a number of fonts until I settled on the one I liked most. Then I created an .Xdefaults file in my home directory which included: Xterm*faceName

Re: .Xdefaults file

2009-12-22 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:38:19AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: rendered correctly, but I can't get X to read the .Xdefaults file. ideas on why .Xdefauts works on the desktop box but not the laptop? Could it be that you need to make sure your xterm is executing a login shell when it starts

Re: .Xdefaults file

2009-12-22 Thread Rem P Roberti
On 2009.12.22 18:03:00 +, Jamie Griffin wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:38:19AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: rendered correctly, but I can't get X to read the .Xdefaults file. ideas on why .Xdefauts works on the desktop box but not the laptop? Could it be that you need to make sure

Re: .Xdefaults file

2009-12-22 Thread Yuri Pankov
an .Xdefaults file in my home directory which included: Xterm*faceName Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Xterm*faceSize 10 I think case matters here, i.e. XTerm*, not Xterm or xterm. Everything works fine. However, when I tried to to this on my old Compaq Presario on which I have 7.2 installed it doesn't

Re: .Xdefaults file

2009-12-22 Thread Rem P Roberti
settled on the one I liked most. Then I created an .Xdefaults file in my home directory which included: Xterm*faceName Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Xterm*faceSize 10 I think case matters here, i.e. XTerm*, not Xterm or xterm. Exactly the problem. Thank you! Rem

Re: .Xdefaults file

2009-12-22 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:45:52PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: I think case matters here, i.e. XTerm*, not Xterm or xterm. Exactly the problem. Thank you! Curious, on my system (7.2) my ~/.Xdefaults uses lowercase 'xterm*...' values. At least you got it working which is the main thing

.Xdefaults info (global xterm resizing continued)

2004-03-05 Thread Aaron Peterson
on google for the term .Xdefaults. Often you can find all the information you need using google.) Aaron ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

.Xdefaults

2003-06-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, I'm using FreeBSD 5.1 and came across something today. Say I wanted to make xterms background by default i could add XTerm*background: black into my ~/.Xdefaults file and it would load by default. Where would I go about finding out more options for more programs to place them in my

Re: .Xdefaults

2003-06-30 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:22:47AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm using FreeBSD 5.1 and came across something today. Say I wanted to make xterms background by default i could add XTerm*background: black into my ~/.Xdefaults file and it would load by default. Where would I go

Re: .Xdefaults

2003-06-30 Thread Sergey \DoubleF\ Zaharchenko
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 11:22:47AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm using FreeBSD 5.1 and came across something today. Say I wanted to make xterms background by default i could add XTerm*background: black into my ~/.Xdefaults file and it would load by default

Xterm won't accept changes to .Xdefaults

2003-06-11 Thread Fredrik Carlén
Hello! I use KDE3.0 on FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE. My xterm won't accept the changes I have made to ~/.Xdefaults, but my emacs sure does. I /have/ run $ xrdb ~/.Xdefaults, I even tried $ xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults even though I don't know what it does... Now for the idiot thing (me being the idiot

Re: Xterm won't accept changes to .Xdefaults

2003-06-11 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Fredrik Carlén thusly... I even tried $ xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults even though I don't know what it does... From xrdb(1)... -load This option indicates that the input should be loaded as the new value of the specified properties, replacing