On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 05:09:55PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The fact that "uxterm" is not called "xterm" makes it ignore the .Xdefaults > > settings for "xterm". > > Well, I'm using Gnome, and it ignores .Xdefaults entirely. You're > supposed to use .Xresources. I don't know why they renamed it. But > uxterm seems to pick up my .Xresources settings. I believe this is because the .Xdefaults file is read by the X Toolkit function XtGetApplicationResources(), which most Gnome applications do not use (they normally don't link against libXt). $ objdump -T /usr/bin/X11/xterm | grep GetApplicationResources 00000000 DF *UND* 00000055 XtGetApplicationResources The Xresources file on the other hand is probably read by "xrdb -load", which is probably invoked by the session manager at some point during login. > In Debian 3.1 r0a, uxterm is a shell script wrapper around xterm; it > ends up invoking "xterm -class UXTerm -title uxterm -u8". It also > futzes with your locale if necessary. OK, maybe I'm wrong - xterm does use Xt, so if uxterm is a wrapper around xterm and uxterm still doesn't read .Xdefaults, perhaps I'm mistaken. Regards, James. _______________________________________________ bug-gnulib mailing list bug-gnulib@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-gnulib
