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From: Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com, Subject: Re: how to set X resources in Cygwin? Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 16:58:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <87wrctdira.fsf@pobox.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <87wrcxmfon.fsf@pobox.com> Tom Roche Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:14:23 +0100 > 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? Andrew DeFaria Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:15:48 -0700 (rearranged) > Is $HOME set correctly for X? Dunno what you mean by "for X." $HOME looks correct to me: # after starting X, in xterm tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ echo -e "${HOME}" /home/tlroche > I would have thought an xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults would be a cure all > (provided you xrdb'ed it to the proper X server!). > Out of curiosity, what does ax xrdb -query reveal? tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -query tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -query | wc -l 0 tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -all -query | wc -l 0 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-X And if I restart wXP: no change. > BTW, instead of Xterm and Rxvt you might look into using mintty from > Cygwin itself. It's a quite nice terminal emulator. I'll give that a try, except that I think I should solve this first: not using .Xdefaults seems like a prior issue. Or should I instead just invoke my X apps with ginormous command lines? TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com> -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-27 16:58 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2011-09-18 21:14 Tom Roche 2011-09-25 4:03 ` Tom Roche 2011-09-26 17:16 ` Andrew DeFaria [not found] ` <1317057402.14012.ezmlm@cygwin.com> 2011-09-27 16:58 ` Tom Roche [this message] 2011-09-27 21:28 ` Andrew DeFaria
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