.Xresources problem

2009-04-02 Thread Kybernetiker 
I have Debian Lenny basic system with X Window, Ice WM, and xdm 
installed. When I try to configure Xterm, X.org seems to ignore the 
~/.Xresources file.


The command xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources doesn't do any good.

I also tried creating .xinitrc file with the entry
xrdb -load $HOME/.Xresources

but without any effect.

The file ~/.Xresources contains the only line:

XTerm*font: -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

However I managed to change the font using xterm -font command.

Please help. Thank you.

Ivan


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Re: .Xresources problem

2009-04-02 Thread Thorny 
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:54:57 +0300, Kybernetiker posted:

 I have Debian Lenny basic system with X Window, Ice WM, and xdm installed.
 When I try to configure Xterm, X.org seems to ignore the ~/.Xresources
 file.
 
 The command xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources doesn't do any good.
 
 I also tried creating .xinitrc file with the entry xrdb -load
 $HOME/.Xresources
 
 but without any effect.
 
 The file ~/.Xresources contains the only line:
 
 XTerm*font: -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
 
 However I managed to change the font using xterm -font command.
 
 Please help. Thank you.
 
 Ivan

If you have a look at the manual page for Xsession.options, is there
anything in there that might be relevant to the issue?



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Re: .Xresources problem

2009-04-02 Thread Marc Auslander 
xrdb -query to see what you actually have.

if there are NO X clients, the resource data base is reset.  so you
have to make sure there is a long running X client before you try to
set the resources.

finally, I don't think XTerm is the right name. IIRC, its Xterm for
the class, and xterm for the program.


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Re: .Xresources problem

2009-04-02 Thread Chris Jones 
On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 08:56:12AM EDT, Marc Auslander wrote:

 finally, I don't think XTerm is the right name. IIRC, its Xterm for
 the class, and xterm for the program.

The class name is XTerm.. as with many X clients whose name starts with
the letter 'x' (but not all .. xpdf for instance). 

You can experiment with xprop to verify the above.

CJ



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Re: .Xresources problem

2009-04-02 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra 
On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:54 +0300 Kybernetiker wrote:
 I have Debian Lenny basic system with X Window, Ice WM, and xdm 
 installed. When I try to configure Xterm, X.org seems to ignore the 
 ~/.Xresources file.

 The file ~/.Xresources contains the only line:
 
 XTerm*font: -*-terminus-*-*-*-*-24-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Try to put that line into ~/.Xdefaults .  Works here.

When I switched from gdm to the console, quite some time ago,
~/.Xresources got ignored.  Don't know about other login managers.


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