Bug 469285
| Summary: | The ~/.Xresources file is not honored when I log in. | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Steven W. Orr <steveo> |
| Component: | kdebase-workspace | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | fedora, jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, mcepl, mlichvar, pertusus, rdieter, than, tuxbrewr, xgl-maint |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2008-11-05 15:46:00 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Could we get an output of the command xrdb -query BEFORE you do any manual merge/load/whatever? Ok. Now I'm feeling half silly (i.e., not completely). The xrdb -query output is below. I do see that *customization is set to -color is and that *StringConversionWarnings is on. But the problem persists. The envvars are properly set and if I run an xterm then it does not work. The flip side is that if I run other things whose resources are represented in /usr/share/X11/app-defaults, the colors *are* working. On the assumption that I'm doing something wrong, do you see what it is? I would hope that the envvars X*FILESEARCHPATH would resolve to something that overrode any content of the window manager resource property. *Box.background: #e0dfde *Box.foreground: #141312 *Button.activeBackground: #e0dfde *Button.activeForeground: #141312 *Button.background: #e0dfde *Button.foreground: #141312 *Button.highlightBackground: #e0dfde *Button.highlightColor: #141312 *Canvas.activeBackground: #ffffff *Canvas.activeForeground: #141312 *Canvas.background: #ffffff *Canvas.foreground: #141312 *Canvas.highlightBackground: #ffffff *Canvas.highlightColor: #141312 *Canvas.selectbackground: #418bd4 *Canvas.selectforeground: #ffffff *Checkbutton.activeBackground: #e0dfde *Checkbutton.activeForeground: #141312 *Checkbutton.background: #e0dfde *Checkbutton.foreground: #141312 *Checkbutton.highlightBackground: #e0dfde *Checkbutton.highlightColor: #141312 *Command.background: #e0dfde *Command.foreground: #141312 *Dialog.background: #e0dfde *Dialog.foreground: #141312 *Entry.activeBackground: #ffffff *Entry.activeForeground: #141312 *Entry.background: #ffffff *Entry.foreground: #141312 *Entry.highlightBackground: #ffffff *Entry.highlightColor: #141312 *Entry.selectBackground: #418bd4 *Entry.selectForeground: #ffffff *Form.background: #e0dfde *Form.foreground: #141312 *Frame.activeBackground: #e0dfde *Frame.activeForeground: #141312 *Frame.background: #e0dfde *Frame.foreground: #141312 *Frame.highlightBackground: #e0dfde *Frame.highlightColor: #141312 *Label.activeBackground: #e0dfde *Label.activeForeground: #141312 *Label.background: #e0dfde *Label.foreground: #141312 *Label.highlightBackground: #e0dfde *Label.highlightColor: #141312 *List.background: #ffffff *List.foreground: #141312 *Listbox.activeBackground: #ffffff *Listbox.activeForeground: #141312 *Listbox.background: #ffffff *Listbox.foreground: #141312 *Listbox.highlightBackground: #ffffff *Listbox.highlightColor: #141312 *Listbox.selectBackground: #418bd4 *Listbox.selectForeground: #ffffff *Menu.activeBackground: #e0dfde *Menu.activeForeground: #141312 *Menu.background: #e0dfde *Menu.foreground: #141312 *Menu.highlightBackground: #e0dfde *Menu.highlightColor: #141312 *MenuButton.background: #e0dfde *MenuButton.foreground: #141312 *Menubutton.activeBackground: #e0dfde *Menubutton.activeForeground: #141312 *Menubutton.background: #e0dfde *Menubutton.foreground: #141312 *Menubutton.highlightBackground: #e0dfde *Menubutton.highlightColor: #141312 *Radiobutton.activeBackground: #e0dfde *Radiobutton.activeForeground: #141312 *Radiobutton.background: #e0dfde *Radiobutton.foreground: #141312 *Radiobutton.highlightBackground: #e0dfde *Radiobutton.highlightColor: #141312 *Scale.activeBackground: #e0dfde *Scale.activeForeground: #141312 *Scale.background: #e0dfde *Scale.foreground: #141312 *Scale.highlightBackground: #e0dfde *Scale.highlightColor: #141312 *Scale.troughColor: #e0dfde *Scrollbar*Cursor: left_ptr *Scrollbar*background: #e0dfde *Scrollbar*cursorName: left_ptr *Scrollbar*height: 15 *Scrollbar*pushThumb: false *Scrollbar*shadowWidth: 2 *Scrollbar*width: 15 *Scrollbar.activeBackground: #e0dfde *Scrollbar.activeForeground: #141312 *Scrollbar.foreground: #141312 *Scrollbar.highlightBackground: #e0dfde *Scrollbar.highlightColor: #141312 *Scrollbar.troughColor: #e0dfde *ScrollbarBackground: #e0dfde *ShapeStyle: Rectangle *SimpleMenu*background: #e0dfde *SimpleMenu*foreground: #141312 *SmeBSB*shadowWidth: 3 *StringConversionWarnings: on *Text.activeBackground: #ffffff *Text.activeForeground: #141312 *Text.background: #ffffff *Text.foreground: #141312 *Text.highlightBackground: #ffffff *Text.highlightColor: #141312 *Text.selectBackground: #418bd4 *Text.selectForeground: #ffffff *Toggle.background: #e0dfde *Toggle.foreground: #141312 *Toplevel.activeBackground: #e0dfde *Toplevel.activeForeground: #141312 *Toplevel.background: #e0dfde *Toplevel.foreground: #141312 *Toplevel.highlightBackground: #e0dfde *Toplevel.highlightColor: #141312 *XmCascadeButton.background: #e0dfde *XmCascadeButton.foreground: #141312 *XmCascadeButtonGadget.background: #e0dfde *XmCascadeButtonGadget.foreground: #141312 *XmDialogShell.background: #e0dfde *XmDialogShell.foreground: #141312 *XmFileSelectionBox.background: #e0dfde *XmFileSelectionBox.foreground: #141312 *XmForm.background: #e0dfde *XmForm.foreground: #141312 *XmFrame.background: #e0dfde *XmFrame.foreground: #141312 *XmLabel.background: #e0dfde *XmLabel.foreground: #141312 *XmLabelGadget.background: #e0dfde *XmLabelGadget.foreground: #141312 *XmList.background: #ffffff *XmList.foreground: #141312 *XmMenuShell.background: #e0dfde *XmMenuShell.foreground: #141312 *XmMessageBox.background: #e0dfde *XmMessageBox.foreground: #141312 *XmPanedWindow.background: #e0dfde *XmPanedWindow.foreground: #141312 *XmPushButton.background: #e0dfde *XmPushButton.foreground: #141312 *XmPushButtonGadget.background: #e0dfde *XmPushButtonGadget.foreground: #141312 *XmRowColumn.background: #e0dfde *XmRowColumn.foreground: #141312 *XmSash.background: #e0dfde *XmSash.foreground: #141312 *XmScrollBar.background: #e0dfde *XmScrollBar.foreground: #141312 *XmScrolledWindow.background: #e0dfde *XmScrolledWindow.foreground: #141312 *XmSelectionBox.background: #e0dfde *XmSelectionBox.foreground: #141312 *XmSeparator.background: #e0dfde *XmSeparator.foreground: #141312 *XmSeparatorGadget.background: #e0dfde *XmSeparatorGadget.foreground: #141312 *XmTearOffButton.background: #e0dfde *XmTearOffButton.foreground: #141312 *XmTearOffButtonGadget.background: #e0dfde *XmTearOffButtonGadget.foreground: #141312 *XmText.background: #ffffff *XmText.foreground: #141312 *XmTextField.background: #ffffff *XmTextField.foreground: #141312 *XmToggleButton.background: #e0dfde *XmToggleButton.foreground: #141312 *XmToggleButtonGadget.background: #e0dfde *XmToggleButtonGadget.foreground: #141312 *background: #e0dfde *beNiceToColormap: false *borderColor: black *customization: -color *foreground: #141312 *rvplayer*Command.BorderColor: #141312 *rvplayer*Command.background: #e0dfde *rvplayer*Command.foreground: #141312 *rvplayer*Label.BorderColor: #141312 *rvplayer*MenuButton.BorderColor: #141312 *rvplayer*MenuButton.background: #e0dfde *rvplayer*SepLine.BorderColor: #e0dfde *rvplayer*SepLine.bottomShadowPixel: #ffffff *rvplayer*SepLine.topShadowPixel: #504f4f *rvplayer*SimpleMenu.BorderColor: #504f4f *rvplayer*SimpleMenu.background: #e0dfde *rvplayer*SimpleMenu.foreground: #141312 *rvplayer*SmeBSB*fgInsensitive: #ffffff *rvplayer*Vslider.thumbPixel: #ffffff *rvplayer*authortext.background: #e0dfde *rvplayer*authortext.bottomShadowPixel: #ffffff *rvplayer*authortext.topShadowPixel: #504f4f *rvplayer*background: #e0dfde *rvplayer*copyrighttext.background: #e0dfde *rvplayer*copyrighttext.bottomShadowPixel: #ffffff *rvplayer*copyrighttext.topShadowPixel: #504f4f *rvplayer*proptext.background: #e0dfde *rvplayer*proptext.foreground: #141312 *rvplayer*statusback.background: #e0dfde *rvplayer*statusback.foreground: #141312 *rvplayer*statustext.background: #e0dfde *rvplayer*statustext.foreground: #141312 *rvplayer*timeinfotext.background: #e0dfde *rvplayer*timeinfotext.bottomShadowPixel: #ffffff *rvplayer*timeinfotext.foreground: #141312 *rvplayer*timeinfotext.topShadowPixel: #504f4f *rvplayer*timeslider.bottomShadowPixel: #ffffff *rvplayer*timeslider.foreground: #e0dfde *rvplayer*timeslider.thumbPixel: #ffffff *rvplayer*timeslider.topShadowPixel: #504f4f *rvplayer*titletext.background: #e0dfde *rvplayer*titletext.bottomShadowPixel: #ffffff *rvplayer*titletext.topShadowPixel: #504f4f *rvplayer*volumeslider.bottomShadowPixel: #ffffff *rvplayer*volumeslider.topShadowPixel: #504f4f AcroRead.XmScreen.background: #ffffff AcroRead.XmScreen.borderColor: #141312 AcroRead.borderColor: #141312 Acroread.background: #ffffff Acroread.foreground: #141312 Config*Text*background: #e0dfde Config*channel.background: #e0dfde Config*key.background: #e0dfde Config*list.background: #e0dfde Emacs*Background: #ffffff Emacs*Dialog*background: #e0dfde Emacs*Dialog*foreground: #141312 Emacs*Foreground: #141312 Emacs*XlwScrollBar.Background: #e0dfde Emacs*XlwScrollBar.Foreground: #141312 Emacs*backgroundToolBarColor: #e0dfde Emacs*bottomToolBarShadowColor: #e0dfde Emacs*menubar*background: #e0dfde Emacs*menubar*foreground: #141312 Emacs*popup*Background: #e0dfde Emacs*popup*Foreground: #141312 Emacs*toolBarShadowThickness: 0 Emacs*topToolBarShadowColor: #e0dfde Emacs.default.attributeBackground: #ffffff Emacs.default.attributeForeground: #141312 Netscape*XmLGrid.background: #e0dfde Netscape*XmLGrid.foreground: #141312 Netscape*XmList*background: #ffffff Netscape*XmList*foreground: #141312 Netscape*XmText*background: #ffffff Netscape*XmText*foreground: #141312 Netscape*XmTextField*background: #ffffff Netscape*XmTextField*foreground: #141312 Netscape*background: #e0dfde Netscape*bottomShadowColor: #504f4f Netscape*defaultBackground: #ffffff Netscape*foreground: #141312 Netscape*highlightColor: #e0dfde Netscape*power.LED.background: #e0dfde Netscape*power.LED.foreground: #418bd4 Netscape*selectBackground: #418bd4 Netscape*selectColor: #e0dfde Netscape*selectForeground: #ffffff Netscape*thermo.slider.background: #e0dfde Netscape*thermo.slider.foreground: #418bd4 Netscape*topShadowColor: #ffffff Netscape*urlLabel*background: #ffffff Netscape*urlLabel*foreground: #141312 Netscape*urlText*background: #ffffff Netscape*urlText*foreground: #141312 Streamer*Text*background: #e0dfde TopLevelShell*background: #e0dfde TopLevelShell*foreground: #141312 WPFMShell*MenuBar*background: #e0dfde WPFMShell*MenuBar*foreground: #141312 WPFMShell*XmDialogShell*XmDrawingArea*background: #ffffff WPFMShell*XmDialogShell*XmDrawingArea*foreground: #141312 WPFMShell*XmDialogShell*XmList*background: #ffffff WPFMShell*XmDialogShell*XmList*foreground: #141312 WPFMShell*XmDialogShell*XmScrolledWindow*XmDrawingArea.background: #ffffff WPFMShell*XmDialogShell*XmScrolledWindow*XmDrawingArea.foreground: #141312 WPFMShell*XmDialogShell*XmText*background: #ffffff WPFMShell*XmDialogShell*XmText*foreground: #141312 WPFMShell*XmDialogShell*XmTextField*background: #ffffff WPFMShell*XmDialogShell*XmTextField*foreground: #141312 WPFMShell*XmDialogShell*background: #ffffff WPFMShell*XmDialogShell*foreground: #141312 WPFMShell*XmDrawingArea*background: #ffffff WPFMShell*XmDrawingArea*foreground: #141312 WPFMShell*XmList*background: #ffffff WPFMShell*XmList*foreground: #141312 WPFMShell*XmScrolledWindow*XmDrawingArea.background: #e0dfde WPFMShell*XmScrolledWindow*XmDrawingArea.foreground: #141312 WPFMShell*XmText*background: #ffffff WPFMShell*XmText*foreground: #141312 WPFMShell*XmTextField*background: #ffffff WPFMShell*XmTextField*foreground: #141312 WPFMShell*background: #e0dfde WPFMShell*foreground: #141312 WPFMShell*menubar*background: #e0dfde WPFMShell*menubar*foreground: #141312 XWp*MenuBar*background: #e0dfde XWp*MenuBar*foreground: #141312 XWp*XmDialogShell*XmDrawingArea.background: #ffffff XWp*XmDialogShell*XmDrawingArea.foreground: #141312 XWp*XmDialogShell*XmList*background: #ffffff XWp*XmDialogShell*XmList*foreground: #141312 XWp*XmDialogShell*XmScrolledWindow*XmDrawingArea.background: #ffffff XWp*XmDialogShell*XmScrolledWindow*XmDrawingArea.foreground: #141312 XWp*XmDialogShell*XmText*background: #ffffff XWp*XmDialogShell*XmText*foreground: #141312 XWp*XmDialogShell*XmTextField*background: #ffffff XWp*XmDialogShell*XmTextField*foreground: #141312 XWp*XmDialogShell*background: #e0dfde XWp*XmDialogShell*foreground: #141312 XWp*XmDrawingArea.background: #ffffff XWp*XmDrawingArea.foreground: #141312 XWp*XmList*background: #ffffff XWp*XmList*foreground: #141312 XWp*XmScrolledWindow*XmDrawingArea.background: #e0dfde XWp*XmScrolledWindow*XmDrawingArea.foreground: #141312 XWp*XmText*background: #ffffff XWp*XmText*foreground: #141312 XWp*XmTextField*background: #FFFFFFFFFFFF XWp*XmTextField*foreground: #141312 XWp*background: #e0dfde XWp*foreground: #141312 XWp*menubar*background: #e0dfde XWp*menubar*foreground: #141312 XWp*popmenu*background: #e0dfde XWp*popmenu*foreground: #141312 XWp.form.controlbar.menubar.CBHlpButton*background: #e0dfde XWp.form.hscrollbar.background: #e0dfde XWp.form.rulerframe.ruler*background: #e0dfde XWp.form.scrollbar0.background: #e0dfde XWp.mainWindowForm.mainWindowMenubar*background: #e0dfde XWp.mainWindowForm.mainWindowMenubar*foreground: #141312 Xawtv*Dialog.value.background: #e0dfde Xawtv*background: #e0dfde Xawtv*foreground: #141312 Xcursor.theme: Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium editres*Panner.Background: #e0dfde editres*Tree.Background: #ffffff editres*Tree.Foreground: #141312 editres*Tree.Toggle.Background: #e0dfde editres*Tree.Toggle.Foreground: #141312 ml*XmCascadeButton.marginHeight: 2 ml*XmCascadeButton.marginWidth: 8 ml*XmForm*bottomOffset: 0 ml*XmForm*topOffset: 0 ml*XmForm*verticalSpacing: 0 ml*XmList*background: #ffffff ml*XmList*foreground: #141312 ml*XmList*highlightThickness: 0 ml*XmPushButton.marginHeight: 1 ml*XmRowColumn*marginHeight: 1 ml*XmRowColumn*spacing: 0 ml*XmRowColumn.entryBorder: 0 ml*XmText*background: #ffffff ml*XmText*foreground: #141312 ml*XmTextField*background: #ffffff ml*XmTextField*foreground: #141312 ml*XmToggleButton.marginHeight: 1 ml*background: #e0dfde ml*borderWidth: 0 ml*focusPolicy: pointer ml*foreground: #141312 ml*helpwin*textSW.text.background: #ffffff ml*helpwin*textSW.text.foreground: #141312 ml*highlightColor: #e0dfde ml*log*textSW.text.background: #ffffff ml*log*textSW.text.foreground: #141312 ml*marginHeight: 2 ml*marginWidth: 3 ml*selectColor: #e0dfde ml*textSW.text.background: #ffffff ml*textSW.text.foreground: #141312 ml.form.height: 550 ml.form.width: 650 nedit*background: #e0dfde nedit*foreground: #141312 xcalc*background: #e0dfde xcalc*bevel.screen.LCD.background: #ffffff xcalc*bevel.screen.LCD.foreground: #141312 xcalc*foreground: #141312 xdvi.background: white xosview*background: #e0dfde xosview*foreground: #141312 xosview*meterLabelColor: #141312 xosview*usedLabelColor: #141312 xpdf.background: #e0dfde xpdf.foreground: #141312 xpdf.urlCommand: kfmclient exec %s xterm*background: #ffffff xterm*foreground: #141312 xterm.SimpleMenu*background: #e0dfde xterm.SimpleMenu*foreground: #141312 What exactly doesn't work, only the scrollbar settings? Does "strace xterm 2>&1 | grep XTerm-color" print the file in $HOME/.app-defaults? 575 > strace xterm 2>&1 | grep XTerm-color
access("/home/steveo/.app-defaults/XTerm-color", R_OK) = 0
stat64("/home/steveo/.app-defaults/XTerm-color", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=2486, ...}) = 0
open("/home/steveo/.app-defaults/XTerm-color", O_RDONLY) = 5
access("/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color", R_OK) = 0
stat64("/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4324, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color", O_RDONLY) = 5
576 >
Also, if I start a new bash and unset XFILESEARCHPATH and then start xterm, I still have the same problem.
What's not working is most of the color settings I specified in my
~/.app-defaults/XTerm-color file which includes the scrollbar settings as well as the various background colors for the menus etc. What *is* working is the cursor color and the saveLines.
Does this help?
Ok, the app-defaults file isn't ignored. You will need to get rid of the *Scrollbar and xterm* resources. Do you know where they come from? I'm at a loss. I have all my resources set in my ~/.app-defaults directory and all the rest are supposed to come from the /usr/share/X11/app-defaults dir. I see no place where anything could come from that could begin with a *. BTW, I did check my own ~/.Xresources file which is just that two-liner I showed above. Is there a way to find out where a resource is being loaded from? And is there a place where system-wide global resources are set? Looks like it's coming from /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults which is owned by kdebase-workspace. Gnome seems to have something similar in gnome-settings-daemon. Not sure how it's supposed to be configured. afaik, stuff in /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults is only merged, but isn't supposed to override or ignore other app-defaults or Xresources Well, KDE will try applying its color scheme to non-KDE apps by default, that might be what's overriding the settings here. This feature can be disabled in systemsettings under Appearance / Colors, maybe that will "fix" this? Bingo. That did it. Just what I wanted. Now the output of xrdb -query is very short: 513 > xrdb -query *StringConversionWarnings: on *customization: -color Xcursor.theme: Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium 514 > and I have restored control over my resources. Thanks. I'm not sure what the Xft stuff is but I see that I do not have libxft installed. One last point. System Settings -> Appearance -> Colors -> Apply colors to non-KDE apps: If I uncheck the button to not apply colors, it doesn't "take" until I log out and then re-log in. I would imagine that removing those resources as a result of the apply button would be hard if not impossible, so I personally would not view the apply button not working until a re-login as a bug. Good news, we'll have to file this one away for posterity. In the meantime, a workaround has been found, can we close this? That's fine with me. I'm happy. :-) |
Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xorg-x11-xinit-1.0.7-6.fc9.i386 running under Fedora 9 with kdm at run level 5. How reproducible: The contents of my .Xresources file is 2 lines long: *customization: -color *StringConversionWarnings: on Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create the file. 2. Log in 3. Run an xterm in an environment where you expect to get color. Actual results: No additional color resources are displayed. Expected results: Colors should happen. Additional info: I use XFILESEARCHPATH and XUSERFILESEARCHPATH. My values are: 513 > echo $XFILESEARCHPATH /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/%N%C 514 > echo $XUSERFILESEARCHPATH /home/steveo/.app-defaults/%N%C 515 > My .app-defaults dir contains a file called XTerm-color whose content is: *background: white *foreground: black *multiScroll: true *fontMenu.background: MistyRose *vtMenu.background: AliceBlue *mainMenu.background: BlanchedAlmond *saveLines: 8192 *cursorColor: DarkOrchid *ScrollBar: true *scrollbar.thickness: 10 *scrollbar.background: gold *scrollbar.foreground: purple1 When I log in and start an xterm, the scrollbars are not properly set. If I run the command: xrdb -load .Xresources and then start the xterm, it works just fine. I also notice that in the file /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common are the lines that say [ -r "$sysresources" ] && xrdb -merge "$sysresources" [ -r "$userresources" ] && xrdb -merge "$userresources" I also tried to change those lines so they say -load instead of -merge. It did not help. Also, after I log in, if I say -merge instead of -load on the commandline, the colors are still not properly set. i.e., after login, you must use -load.