Re: X (resources?)

[Van Ly <van.ly%SDF.ORG@localhost>]

Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> writes:

> When I run   xrdb -merge .Xresources   I see:
>
> xrdb: colon missing on line 9, ignoring line
> xrdb: colon missing on line 12, ignoring line
>                               .
>                               .
>                               .
> xrdb: colon missing on line 124, ignoring line
>
> In .Xresources:
>
> L124 contains !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> L9 , L12 contain (or similar )  !Mwm*menu*background: Grey27
>
>
> What am I missing ??
>

Just a guess.  The end of line convention is somehow confused.  Try
cutting out to another file all the bad lines.  Once you have a
.Xresources file that doesn't error, reintroduce one line short of the
last character from the bad lines file or type in say L124 to see if it
errors.

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vl