On Fri 05 Jan 2024 at 08:23:33 +0000, RVP wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2024, Rhialto wrote: > > > I do have in my ~/.Xresources: > > > > xterm.vt100.faceName: Lucida Console Semi-Condensed > > xterm.vt100.faceSize: 9 > > XTerm.vt100.renderFont: false > > UXTerm.vt100.renderFont: true > > > > You've put the instance-names (lower-case initial char.) in .Xresources > which will override resources specified using class-names (upper-case > initial char.), so: Thanks for your analysis. I had a feeling it might have something to do with the details of the .Xresources and how the command line arguments relate to that. But I couldn't quite get my finger behind it. The thing is that I used the lower case names (instance names instead of class names) in the .Xresources on purpose. The reason was, if I remember correctly, to make them work for both xterm and uxterm. Uxterm is basically "xterm -class UXTerm". That means that resources like "XTerm.VT100.faceName" don't match for uxterm. I would need to double them for both cases. For the renderFont resource I make use of this difference: for XTerm it is false, for UXTerm it is true. I suppose that the reason why the app-defaults file for UXTerm (/usr/X11R7/lib/X11/app-defaults/UXTerm) works with including the one for XTerm, is that those simply don't include the XTerm or UXTerm component at all. But I don't think that is an option for the global .Xresources. [...] > those 2 are not equivalent. The `-fa "C64 Pro Mono"' becomes, I believe, > `XTerm.VT100.faceName: C64 Pro Mono'; and class-names are a less specific > match compared to instance-names. This is hinted at in xterm(1): > > Some poorly?designed resource files are too specific to > allow the command?line options to affect the relevant widget > values. Hm, I would then say that the problem is that the command line option does *not* equate to the most-specific possible resource name. I would expect that a command line option *always* must override resources. I browsed through the source of xterm and it wasn't immediately clear where the command line option is recognised and converted to a resource. So I could not say if this is easy to change. > -xterm.vt100.faceName: Lucida Console Semi-Condensed > -xterm.vt100.faceSize: 9 > +XTerm.vt100.faceName: Lucida Console Semi-Condensed > +XTerm.vt100.faceSize: 9 > > That should work. I'll duplicate them for UXTerm as well, then. Unless some better idea comes along. Thanks! > -RVP -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert <rhialto/at/falu.nl> \X/ There is no AI. There is just someone else's work. --I. Rose
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