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Re: Eliminating the xterm

On Nov 17, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:

On Sat, Nov 17, 2007, Francisco De La Cruz wrote:

Ok, it is not that I don't want the xterm to launch (I actually want it),
after all it is the only way to know that X11 is running. It's just that I
want it to honor my customizations in ~/.Xresources and if it does the same
for my ~/.bash_profile great. 

As I have said repeatedly, any xterm will read your ~/XTerm file
when it starts, and it is a subset of the ~/.Xresources file with
entries specific to xterms.

Try this, then stop and start X11 with the default xterm.

grep -i xterm ~/.Xresources > ~/XTerm

Bill

Yuck! Making more resource files just leads to fractured settings, and ultimately leads to confusion as you can't remember where you set what. And double yuck that ~/XTerm isn't hidden, so every time I do a home directory listing, I have to see that file as a glaring and ugly workaround to this problem.

If you need to sidestep this problem, I like the Martin's suggestion: tell org.x.X11_launcher to run xlsclients, and move the xterm into your .xinitrc.

--
Andrew J. Hesford <email@hidden>
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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 >Re: Eliminating the xterm (From: Ben Byer <email@hidden>)
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