Bug 64532

Summary:	rxvt ignores .Xdefaults
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Habig, Alec <ahabig>
Component:	rxvt	Assignee:	Harald Hoyer <harald>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	bugs.michael
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Description Habig, Alec 2002-05-07 12:05:15 UTC

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Description of problem:
rxvt-2.7.8-3 shipped with RHL 7.3 ignores X resources specified in .Xdefaults

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Add or change an XTerm or Rxvt resource in .Xdefaults
2.xrdb -merge to pull in the change, or restart X (just in case)
3.start rxvt
	

Actual Results:  rxvt stays with default colors, fonts, etc.
Specifying them on the command line works fine.


Expected Results:  one should be able to customize the terminal's appearance.
Using rxvt-2.7.6-4 from RHL 7.2 works fine in this respect.

Additional info:

At one point, someone disabled rxvt's getting of .Xdefaults in the spec file. 
However, that is not the case this time: --enable-xgetdefault is right in there.
 Recompiling shows that the proper #ifdef is being set in the code, but for
whatever reason the resource grabbing is just broken.  Haven't run the code
under a debugger yet to follow what might be going wrong.

Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2002-05-07 18:03:09 UTC

Works for me with rxvt.

[But it's something else with xterm. Since xrdb -merge doesn't overwrite
existing resource properties, it is not possible with -merge to overwrite defaults.]

Comment 2 Harald Hoyer 2002-05-08 08:59:29 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 61597 ***

Comment 3 Harald Hoyer 2002-05-08 09:15:17 UTC

Added to .Xresources: 
Rxvt*background: black 
Rxvt*foreground: white 
 
$ xrdb -merge .Xresources 
 
WORKSFORME

Comment 4 Habig, Alec 2002-05-08 18:40:59 UTC

Hmm.  Doesn't work for me on two seperate machines.  Both machines upgraded from
7.2 rather than a fresh install and using Windowmaker for a desktop, though.

Tried .Xresources rather than .Xdefaults, emptied the files, put in just your
two lines, tried xrdb, xrdb -merge, and restarting X.  No go.

rxvt-2.7.6-4.i386 works perfectly.  Go figure.  Bigger version numbers aren't
always better I guess.  Furthermore, all other X resources I set for other
programs are honored. 

(sorry I missed the duplicate bug - my guess is a search on bugs in the Red Hat
Linux product might not catch ones in the beta product?)

Comment 5 Michael Schwendt 2002-05-08 21:38:33 UTC

I don't see why this is a duplicate of bug #61597. This one is about "xrdb
-merge .Xdefaults" failing (which I cannot reproduce). The other report is about
rxvt not reading .Xdefaults itself.

@reporter

What do you get when you ran "xrdb -query | grep -i rxvt" before and after you
merge in your properties?