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Tom Roche Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:14:23 +0100I merely mean that ~/.Xdefaults is the same file for both bash and X (sometimes the setting of the HOME environment is incorrect set to something like C:\Users\<userid> or some other Windows path).Andrew DeFaria Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:15:48 -0700 (rearranged)summary: I'm running an up-to-date cygwin X on wxpsp3. I get both xterm and urxvt-X to start, but cannot get either to pickup settings from .Xdefaults or .Xresources. What am I doing wrong?Is $HOME set correctly for X?Dunno what you mean by "for X." $HOME looks correct to me:
Hmm... No need for all that syntactic sugar "echo $HOME" would have achieve the necessary effect.# after starting X, in xterm tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ echo -e "${HOME}"
/home/tlrocheI would not expect the X Resource DataBase to have anything in it before you -load it
I would have thought an xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults would be a cure all (provided you xrdb'ed it to the proper X server!). Out of curiosity, what does ax xrdb -query reveal?tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -query tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -query | wc -l 0 tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -all -query | wc -l 0
OK, so your resources are set.tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ cat .Xdefaults ! copy/mod from ! http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2007/09/cygwin-x-ratposoin-screen-rxvt-setup/ ! https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_resources#Xterm_resources ! Note: ! * need to capitalize first letter (or 2) of application? see ! http://xwinman.org/resource.php
XTerm*background: white ! XTerm*foreground: black XTerm*cursorColor: red XTerm*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8 XTerm*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:style=Bold XTerm*scrollBar: True XTerm*rightScrollBar: True XTerm*scrollKey: True XTerm*saveLines: 9999 XTerm*toolBar: True
!! see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Urxvt Urxvt*background: white Urxvt*foreground: black ! run "fc-list" for a list of available fonts Urxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8 Urxvt*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:style=Bold URxvt*scrollBar: False URxvt*scrollTtyOutput: False URxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: True URxvt*secondaryScroll: True URxvt*saveLines: 9999 URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed
tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults
tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -query XTerm*background: white XTerm*cursorColor: red XTerm*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8 XTerm*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:style=Bold XTerm*scrollBar: True XTerm*rightScrollBar: True XTerm*scrollKey: True XTerm*saveLines: 9999 XTerm*toolBar: True Urxvt*background: white Urxvt*foreground: black Urxvt*font: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8 Urxvt*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:style=Bold URxvt*scrollBar: False URxvt*scrollTtyOutput: False URxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: True URxvt*secondaryScroll: True URxvt*saveLines: 9999 URxvt.perl-ext-common: default,tabbed
But if I restart X: no change in display of xterm or urxvt-XWhy restart X? I bet restarting X will start with a fresh, empty resource database.
And if I restart wXP: no change.What's "wXP"? Windows XP?
Yes, while this may solve your term needs, it solves no other X application need so yes you should solve the problem.I'll give that a try, except that I think I should solve this first: not using .Xdefaults seems like a prior issue.BTW, instead of Xterm and Rxvt you might look into using mintty from Cygwin itself. It's a quite nice terminal emulator.
Or should I instead just invoke my X apps with ginormous command lines?Lot's of people do but I'm not a big fan of that. I believe having control in a conf file a much better way. Sorta like the difference between embedding CSS <style> tags vs. using a <link> to a .css file...
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