Re: Anyone had problems with .Xresources ??

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thanks -- I will play with this.

On Mon, Jul 11, 2022 at 6:09 AM <ignatios%cs.uni-bonn.de@localhost> 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
>
> -