From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Home directory has blank space, X resources not recognized
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 10:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <57063242.2070806@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK-n8j5x9XS9EHU0Ecg7upcr2vxRmGS7B8MgAjQNME1TE_wH9w@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/04/2016 17:48, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:
> My employer is making us use Box Sync for backup. We have to move all
> directories we want backed up into the Box Sync folder.
>
> So I have moved my Cygwin ~ (home) directory to that folder. I
> configured nsswitch.conf as follows:
>
> db_home: /cygdrive/c/Users/reisert/Box%_Sync/Home
>
> Most things are working. However, my Xterms are coming up in the
> default 80x24 format with black text on a white background. The Xwin
> server does not seem to recognize my ~/.xserverrc file which contains
> simply:
>
> exec /usr/bin/XWin -notrayicon "$@"
~/.xserverrc is not read by the X server, it used to invoke the X server
by the startxwin script.
I'm not sure how this connects to the problem with Xresources.
> I did not state this correctly. I should have written:
>
> The Xwin server does not seem to recognize my ~/.Xresources file.
>
> I can do this from an xterm:
>
> xrdb ~/.Xresources
>
> Then my X resources will get loaded properly.
Likewise, ~/.Xresources is not loaded by the server, but by the scripts
which startxwin invokes to start the X session.
> What can I do to fix this?
Following the twisty path
/usr/bin/startxwin -> /etc/X11/xinit/startxwinrc ->
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common
does the actual loading of ~/.Xresources, and I guess is possibly
missing some needed quotation?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-07 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-06 16:48 Jim Reisert AD1C
2016-04-06 16:52 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2016-04-07 10:11 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2016-04-07 19:17 ` Jim Reisert AD1C
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