Re: Anyone had problems with .Xresources ??

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Guest just curios.

That trick/work  worried -- thanks.

Thanks

On Sat, Jul 9, 2022 at 4:17 PM John McCue <jmclists%jmcunx.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> 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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