urxvt and ~/.Xdefaults

[Michael V. De Palatis]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2006 at 06:07:50PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> I think the semantics are somewhat different too; .Xresources is parsed
> from some /etc/Xsession.d/ script during login time, while applications
> used to parse .Xdefaults on every startup.  IOW if you change
> .Xresources, you may need to log out and log back in (or merge the
> changes with xrdb) before the changes take effect.
> 
> Disclaimer: the above may be completely and wildly inaccurate.  I am not
> an expert about X resources.  Besides IIRC rxvt sidesteps the whole
> mechanism and does the parsing itself in order to save memory or
> something like that.  Maybe.
> 
> > >   ! 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
> > > 

Hmm. So apparently it makes a difference if you have URxvt or urxvt. I
changed this, and added the *'s, and now it works just fine. Weird.

Mike