Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles
Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles
- Subject: Re: Xterm not reading dotfiles
- From: "Nathaniel Gray" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:13:01 -0800
On Nov 16, 2007 10:41 PM, Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Nov 16, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Francisco De La Cruz wrote:
> >> That is not true. X11.app opens it the same exact way as
> >> Applications->xterm. Francisco, do you get a white xterm when
> >> doing Applications->xterm?
> >
> > >No, I get the xterm I have configured in ~/.Xresources which is a
> > simple black (bg) with grey >foreground (fg) and my favorite font
> > (sabvga).
>
> Odd, the code that launches that is the exact same as X11.app
Yes, but by the time you can get to the menu xinitrc has finished
running and the x resources database is up-to-date. The problem is
that it usually can't run fast enough to beat the client that
triggered the X server's launch in the first place.
> >> Francisco, what happens if you do this at a terminal?
> >> /usr/bin/login -fp <your login> /bin/sh -c xterm
> >
> > >I get the white xterm
>
> Weird... so this is probably just the race condition. I'll look at
> this a bit more when I get some cycles.
Exactly.
Cheers,
-n8
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