From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Gkaz8-0000nE-Qc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:44:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAG6gPJW020850; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:42:25 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAG6eLiZ026659 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:40:22 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B2E483423 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:44:03 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vxBTX0fjr1kK for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:43:58 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E9D83411 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:43:58 +0200 (SAST) Received: from [192.168.2.130] ([192.168.2.130]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:42:13 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X resources contorl file Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:36:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <873b8ksd7t.fsf@newsguy.com> <455B73A4.3070004@gmail.com> <87d57ounei.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87d57ounei.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611160836.11962.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Nov 2006 06:42:13.0165 (UTC) FILETIME=[592C3DD0:01C7094A] X-Archives-Salt: a4c74279-fd8d-4a3c-960e-9534f5dabc0e X-Archives-Hash: 188551e4ce5d702951ac8ae75195d7ff On Thursday 16 November 2006 04:37, reader@newsguy.com wrote: > Nagatoro writes: > > reader@newsguy.com wrote: > > [...] > > > >> Currently the .xresoruces file appears to be ignored. > > > > Try with a capital X (.Xresources). > > Haa.. there was a time and maybe different OS where case didn't > matter so I never thought to try that. > > Even this time, I quickly tried it and saw no difference and was on > the verge of posting back saying it didn't change anything but I > pondered a moment and thought to try restarting X. Sure enough, the > lowercase was the problem. On restarting X the data in .Xresources > was recognized. > > I'd quit even using it mnths ago and am glad to have it > back...Thanks. In my experience you'll find that your kde and gnome apps will pretty much mostly ignore your .Xresources or at the very least what's in it gets overridden by kcontrol/gconf. Your other X apps work just fine of course alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list