reassign 447519 x11-common retitle 447519 x11-common: [Xresources] doesn't support '*' as a 'common' wildcard found 447519 1:7.3+2 thanks
Hi Thomas! Since the problem isn't in xterm, but in Xt resources, I reassigned the bug to x11-common (because it's the package that ships /etc/X11/Xresources). On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:15:38 +0200, Thomas Dickey wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:42:21PM +0200, Luca Capello wrote: >> Since resources specified as *XTerm are correctly read by xterm, I >> assumed that '*' is a wildcard, which stands for "all", thus >> "*XTerm" means "every class which ends in XTerm". > > Wildcards in Xt resources aren't supposed to do that (oddly enough). > They replace whole leaf-names rather than parts of them. The resource > syntax is documented in the X manpage (at the moment I'm on Solaris, > and know the the Linux manpage is named different...). Here's the > text, for reference: Thank you for the explanation and I agree that it's oddly enough that wildcards behave differently in Xt resources.... > I usually do this a different way, setting > $XAPPLRESDIR > to my > $HOME/app-defaults > (and putting individual resource files there). Again, thank you for the hint, but I don't have a lot of Xt resources and I prefer to set them in one single file. I haven't closed this bug yet because I don't really know how to proceed: either we just close this bug as a not-a-bug or we leave this bug opened as a wishlist, tagging it upstream, too. In the latter case, since I think it's quite difficult that Xt resources will be changed to use 'common' wildcards, the bug is eligible for a wontfix tag, too. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]