Bug#447519: xterm: [UXTerm] doesn't support *XTerm class in ~/.Xresources
Hi Thomas!
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:47:00 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 11:40:11PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote:
>> I'm not sure this is really a bug, but I cannot find anything in
>> the documentation. In case it's there, can anyone point me at it,
>> please?
>>
>> Basically, I'd like to define UXTerm resources in the *XTerm form
>> (which is perfectly valid for xterm itself), in order to avoid
>> resource duplications. As I wrote, it seems that xterm supports
>> *XTerm, while uxterm no.
>
> The uxterm script sets the class to "UXTerm" so that there are no
> conflicts in resource intent/interpretation between the two uses.
I'm aware of that and indeed this is a reason I started with "I'm not
sure this is really a bug".
If the "problem" is not clear, here my second try: I usually quite
exclusively uxterm and thus I could specify UXTerm resources as
UXTerm. However, sometime I start an xterm and, obviously, I don't
have my UXTerm settings. Since resources specified as *XTerm are
correctly read by xterm, I assumed that '*' is a wildcard, which
stands for "all", thus "*XTerm" means "every class which ends in
XTerm".
If the latter is right, this should be the case for UXTerm, too.
Since it's not the case, this is a bug. However, if I'm wrong, I'll
change the severity of this bug as 'wishlist' ;-)
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
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