Joey Hess wrote: > > Colin R. Telmer: > > I had this problem a while ago and figured out a hack for it (although > > this is weird) for an old version of rxvt. If I put a symlink in my home > > directory as follows, it reads the resources fine: > > > > .Xdefaults -> .Xresources > > > > However, strangely enough, I removed this symlink yesterday and it seemed > > to like .Xresources. The version I am running currently is also 2.20-4. So > > Iam really not offering a solution unfortunately, but it may help in the > > interim. Cheers. > > Nope, that's not it. xrdb is sucessfully reading in my .Xresources file, and > setting the Rxvt* entries, rxvt is just ignoring them. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~>xrdb -query |grep Rxvt > Rxvt*background: black > Rxvt*colorBD: yellow > Rxvt*font: fixed > Rxvt*foreground: white > Rxvt*geometry: 80x28 > Rxvt*scrollBar: false > > If I were having your problem, none of the other settings in my .Xresources > file would work, but they do -- just not rxvt's settings. >
You're mistaken. The other settings *would* work. As you know, rxvt is supposed to be a *lightweight* alternative to xterm. For some reason, when you compile rxvt there's an option to use "real" resources or to use a built-in resource getting function (which will only read from a file and that file must be .Xdefaults). Check with the package maintainer to verify which option was chosen. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
