From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 125035 invoked by alias); 6 Apr 2016 16:52:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 125022 invoked by uid 89); 6 Apr 2016 16:52:37 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KAM_INFOUSMEBIZ,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Box, Home, white, black X-HELO: alum-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu Received: from alum-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu (HELO alum-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu) (18.7.68.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 16:52:24 +0000 Received: from outgoing-alum.mit.edu (OUTGOING-ALUM.MIT.EDU [18.7.68.33]) by (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id D5.F4.02276.6CE35075; Wed, 6 Apr 2016 12:52:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-io0-f175.google.com (mail-io0-f175.google.com [209.85.223.175]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as jjreisert@ALUM.MIT.EDU) by outgoing-alum.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id u36GqM7k002205 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 6 Apr 2016 12:52:22 -0400 Received: by mail-io0-f175.google.com with SMTP id g185so63367526ioa.2 for ; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:52:22 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJLksB3G84o1lMrhA37hvso+pG5ikzCjTSGDx9bbya0cg8hobS79aJ4QVrEjmPCWO/2rFZAJUuIFEjawbg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.107.134.151 with SMTP id q23mr28192394ioi.25.1459961542205; Wed, 06 Apr 2016 09:52:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.107.57.215 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Apr 2016 09:52:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2016 16:52:00 -0000 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: Home directory has blank space, X resources not recognized From: Jim Reisert AD1C To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00125.txt.bz2 > 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: 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. -- Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple