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Bug#399789: marked as done (xterm: does not honor ~/.Xdefaults)

Your message dated Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:18:26 +0200
with message-id <462547B2.2040902@ens-lyon.org>
and subject line Bug#399789: xterm: does not honor ~/.Xdefaults
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Package: xterm
Version: 222-1
Severity: normal

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I upgraded from xterm-210-3.1 today and was disappointed to see that
uxterm no longer honors the settings I've saved in ~/.Xdefaults.
Specifically, I expect when starting up a uxterm that the backgronud
will be light, the foreground text will be black, and the font will be
large.  Instead, I see what appears to be the default uxterm with a
small font and white text on a black background.

When I replace 'UXTerm' with 'XTerm' in my ~/.Xdefaults and run xterm,
I also do not see the expected behavior.

$ cat ~/.Xdefaults 
XBoard*clockMode: false
UXTerm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono
UXTerm*faceSize: 13
UXTerm*saveLines: 20000
UXTerm*background: AntiqueWhite
UXTerm*foreground: black

$ xprop 
WM_STATE(WM_STATE):
                window state: Normal
                icon window: 0x0
_NET_WM_STATE(ATOM) = 
WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM): protocols  WM_DELETE_WINDOW
_NET_WM_PID(CARDINAL) = 7160
WM_CLIENT_LEADER(WINDOW): window id # 0x1a0000f
WM_LOCALE_NAME(STRING) = "en_US.UTF-8"
WM_CLASS(STRING) = "xterm", "UXTerm"
WM_HINTS(WM_HINTS):
                Client accepts input or input focus: True
                Initial state is Normal State.
WM_NORMAL_HINTS(WM_SIZE_HINTS):
                program specified size: 484 by 316
                program specified minimum size: 10 by 17
                program specified resize increment: 6 by 13
                program specified base size: 4 by 4
WM_CLIENT_MACHINE(STRING) = "diana"
WM_COMMAND(STRING) = { "xterm", "-class", "UXTerm", "-title", "uxterm", "-u8" }
WM_ICON_NAME(STRING) = "xterm"
WM_NAME(STRING) = "uxterm"

$ which-pkg-broke xterm
[...]
libselinux1                                            Fri Nov 10 10:34:13 2006
libx11-data                                            Tue Nov 21 11:56:12 2006
libx11-6                                               Tue Nov 21 11:56:13 2006
x11-common                                             Tue Nov 21 11:56:20 2006
msttcorefonts                                          Tue Nov 21 11:57:58 2006
xterm                                                  Tue Nov 21 11:59:09 2006


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages xterm depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.3.6.ds1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libfontconfig1               2.4.1-2     generic font configuration library
ii  libice6                      1:1.0.1-2   X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libncurses5                  5.5-5       Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libsm6                       1:1.0.1-3   X11 Session Management library
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.0.3-3   X11 client-side library
ii  libxaw7                      1:1.0.2-4   X11 Athena Widget library
ii  libxext6                     1:1.0.1-2   X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2                      2.1.8.2-8   FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxmu6                      1:1.0.2-2   X11 miscellaneous utility library
ii  libxt6                       1:1.0.2-2   X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  xbitmaps                     1.0.1-2     Base X bitmaps

Versions of packages xterm recommends:
ii  xutils                      1:7.1.ds.3-1 X Window System utility programs

- -- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Hi Alec,

After discussing with upstream, it appears that this behavior is
expected. From what I understood:

The X client reads .Xdefaults only if no resources have been loaded
previously in your session. There are actually several resources files
that could have been loaded earlier, especially your ~/.Xresources (in
the Debian-specific Xsession), and also some WM-related resources files
(at least Gnome seems to load one). In this case, only
.Xdefaults-$(hostname) is read.

So, you should probably just stop using .Xdefaults and use .Xresources
instead.

I am closing this bug.

Brice

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