Re: Eliminating the xterm
Re: Eliminating the xterm
- Subject: Re: Eliminating the xterm
- From: Francisco De La Cruz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:55:17 -0800
So "defaults write org.x.X11_launcher app_to_run /usr/X11/bin/xlsclients" it is.
On Saturday, November 17, 2007, at 01:24PM, "Andrew J. Hesford" <email@hidden> wrote:
>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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