Thanks -- I will play with this.
On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 6:09 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 10:09:16AM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > if I do: > > > > xrdb .Xresources > > > > I works, and the MWM menus loop as I had it. > > > > WHEN I BOOT NetBSD -- the file (db is gone??) gives me > > a menu with ONLY GREY backdoors (EMACS is read black). > > You should be aware that the Xt widget (and thus, Motif/Lesstif > widget) resources are in the running X server, and when you finish > a session, those values are (usually) wiped (when the X server > restart, especially when you boot the machine, too, of course). > > To be precise: > > X resources are read from (in decreasing priority): > > - command line arguments of a program started > - the ones stored in the X server, when the program doesn't > get one from a command line > - default values from the tree /usr/X11R7/lib/X11/app-defaults/ > - compiled-in fallbacks > > That's why you can override compiled-in or app-defaults values with > on the fly with xrdb, but you need to push them to your running X > server each time you restart it. > > Regards, > -is > > -
