Re: Anyone had problems with .Xresources ??

[John McCue <jmclists%jmcunx.com@localhost>]

On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 03:38:05PM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> must I ask "$HOME" -- or the full dir-name?

Does not matter, I use $HOME since it is
shell agnostic.

> On Sat, Jul 9, 2022 at 5:32 PM John McCue <jmclists%jmcunx.com@localhost> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 09, 2022 at 10:09:16AM +0000, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > >if I do:
> > >
> > >xrdb .Xresources
> >
> > I have no issues, try
> > xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources
> > in your ~/.xsession (or .xinitrc)
> >
> > >
> > >I works, and the MWM menus loop as I had it.
> > >
> > >WHEN I BOOT NetBSD -- the file (db is gone??)  gives me
> > >a menu with ONLY GREY backdoors (EMACS is read black).
> >
> > I really do not know what 'db is gone' means and I do
> > not really understand the emacs problem.
> >
> > Regards,
> > John

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