Re: pterm + .XResources

["Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On 2004-02-08, Colin Watson penned:
>> 
>> The font setting is working.  The geometry settings seem to be
>> ignored.  Is this a bug, or am I being braindead?
>
> When you change .Xresources, you need to reload it with 'xrdb -merge
> .Xresources'. Does this help? pterm.TermHeight and pterm.TermWidth
> work for me having done this.
>

Is xrdb something that needs to be run every time you start X, or just
once to update a database?  I'm guessing the previous, based on its man
page, but I'm not sure where I would set this up.

You know, on re-evaluation, I don't think the font setting is working,
either ...

Anyway, I tried your suggestion.

This is the output of a query:

monique@luigi:~$ xrdb -query
*customization: -color
Xft.antialias:  1
Xft.dpi:        96.000000
Xft.hinting:    1
Xft.hintstyle:  hintmedium
Xft.rgba:       none
pterm.Font:     -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-m-*-iso8859-1
pterm.TermHeight:       70
pterm.TermWidth:        80


And yet ... pterm is still coming with its default height, 24.

Should the file be .Xresources or .XResources, or does it matter?  Does
it need to be executable?

I couldn't find a man page on this file ... how would I go about finding
such a thing?

I can't help but feel that I'm missing something glaringly obvious.

-- 
monique