Re: window manager not picking up Xresources?
On 09/15/2006 07:50 AM, Ian D. Leroux wrote:
I'm having a strange (to me) problem where xterms launched by the window
manager are clearly ignoring my Xresources settings. To be precise:
1) Xterms launched via menu entry or via hard-coded commands in the
window manager have default settings (small fixed font, white-on black)
irrespective of the contents of ~/.Xresources. Xterms launched by hand
(either from other xterms or from a window-manager-supplied command line
like ratpoison's C-t !) obey all .Xresources settings, as expected. If
I launch a second window manager from the first, the second window
manager behaves correctly, i.e. the problem only appears for the first
window manager to be launched.
[...]
What are those hard-coded commands you're talking about? That's
important because terminal emulators recognize their resources based
upon their names. So if you define resources for "XTerm" (note the
capitals), but you start the program as "xterm," it won't work.
Try defining resources for "xterm," and see if that works.
Or you can create a symbolic link:
ln -s /usr/bin/xterm ~/bin/XTerm
This assumes that $HOME/bin exists and is in the path.
--
paduille.4058.mumia.w@earthlink.net
Reply to: