From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13976 invoked by alias); 26 Sep 2011 17:16:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 13939 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Sep 2011 17:16:26 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_RX,TW_XR X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from lo.gmane.org (HELO lo.gmane.org) (80.91.229.12) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:16:11 +0000 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R8Eml-0004R1-Hz for cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:16:07 +0200 Received: from 173-164-195-49-sfba.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([173.164.195.49]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:16:07 +0200 Received: from Andrew.DeFaria by 173-164-195-49-sfba.hfc.comcastbusiness.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:16:07 +0200 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com From: Andrew DeFaria Subject: Re: how to set X resources in Cygwin? Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:16:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <87wrcxmfon.fsf@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 In-Reply-To: <87wrcxmfon.fsf@pobox.com> X-Stationery: 0.7.5 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-09/txt/msg00019.txt.bz2 On 9/24/2011 9:03 PM, Tom Roche wrote: > bumpity-bump: > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2011-09/msg00016.html > ... >> Date: 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? >> details: > ... > > Assistance would be sincerely appreciated! BTW, instead of Xterm and Rxvt you might look into using mintty from Cygwin itself. It's a quite nice terminal emulator. I use ~/.Xdefaults a lot (well less now...). My thought is: Is $HOME set correctly for X? 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? -- Andrew DeFaria Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices. -- 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/