Re: how to set X resources in Cygwin?

[Tom Roche <Tom_Roche at pobox dot com>]

Tom Roche Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:14:23 +0100
> summary: I'm running an up-to-date cygwin X on wxpsp3. I get both
> xterm and urxvt-X to start, but cannot get either to pickup settings
> from .Xdefaults or .Xresources. What am I doing wrong?

Andrew DeFaria Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:15:48 -0700 (rearranged)
> Is $HOME set correctly for X?

Dunno what you mean by "for X." $HOME looks correct to me:

# after starting X, in xterm
tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ echo -e "${HOME}"
/home/tlroche

> I would have thought an xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults would be a cure all
> (provided you xrdb'ed it to the proper X server!).
> Out of curiosity, what does ax xrdb -query reveal?

tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -query
tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -query | wc -l
0
tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -all -query | wc -l
0

tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ cat .Xdefaults
! copy/mod from
! http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2007/09/cygwin-x-ratposoin-screen-rxvt-setup/
! https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_resources#Xterm_resources
! Note:
! * need to capitalize first letter (or 2) of application? see
!   http://xwinman.org/resource.php

XTerm*background:  white
! XTerm*foreground: black
XTerm*cursorColor: red
XTerm*font:        xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
XTerm*boldFont:    xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:style=Bold
XTerm*scrollBar:   True
XTerm*rightScrollBar: True
XTerm*scrollKey:   True
XTerm*saveLines:   9999
XTerm*toolBar:     True

!! see https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Urxvt
Urxvt*background: white
Urxvt*foreground: black
! run "fc-list" for a list of available fonts
Urxvt*font:       xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
Urxvt*boldFont:   xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:style=Bold
URxvt*scrollBar: False
URxvt*scrollTtyOutput: False
URxvt*scrollTtyKeypress: True
URxvt*secondaryScroll: True
URxvt*saveLines: 9999
URxvt.perl-ext-common:  default,tabbed

tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults

tlroche@tlrZ61t ~$ xrdb -query
XTerm*background:       white
XTerm*cursorColor:      red
XTerm*font:     xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
XTerm*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:style=Bold
XTerm*scrollBar:        True
XTerm*rightScrollBar:   True
XTerm*scrollKey:        True
XTerm*saveLines:        9999
XTerm*toolBar:  True
Urxvt*background:       white
Urxvt*foreground:       black
Urxvt*font:     xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
Urxvt*boldFont: xft:Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8:style=Bold
URxvt*scrollBar:        False
URxvt*scrollTtyOutput:  False
URxvt*scrollTtyKeypress:        True
URxvt*secondaryScroll:  True
URxvt*saveLines:        9999
URxvt.perl-ext-common:  default,tabbed

But if I restart X: no change in display of xterm or urxvt-X
And if I restart wXP: no change.

> BTW, instead of Xterm and Rxvt you might look into using mintty from
> Cygwin itself. It's a quite nice terminal emulator.

I'll give that a try, except that I think I should solve this first: not using .Xdefaults seems like a prior issue. Or should I instead just invoke my X apps with ginormous command lines?

TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>

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