urxvt and ~/.Xdefaults

Michael V. De Palatis mvd at gatech.edu
Mon Aug 7 13:19:43 UTC 2006


On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 02:31:07PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 11:01:07AM -0500, Michael V. De Palatis wrote:
> > I simply copied everything I have for urxvt in my .Xdefaults and added
> > a rxvt-unicode.<etc> in.
> 
> .Xdefaults has been deprecated for several decades, I think.  I have
> ~/.Xresources with the following in it:

No matter, I have symlinked .Xresources to .Xdefaults. If the former
is the "preferred" name these days, I can always just rename it.

>   ! rxvt-unicode
>   URxvt*tintColor: #999
>   URxvt*shading: -100
>   URxvt*font: xft:Mono-12
>   URxvt*scrollstyle: xterm
>   URxvt*scrollBar_right: True
>   URxvt*scrollTtyOutput: False
>   URxvt*saveLines: 5000
>   URxvt*borderLess: True
>   URxvt*inheritPixmap: True
> 
> urxvt pays attention to these settings even if I start it as
> x-terminal-emulator.

Hmm. I wonder why I'm having issues then. Are you running the version
that is in Dapper?

Mike




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