Xterm and .Xresources

[dmartin at LanCity.COM (Derek Martin)]

On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, John Chambers,,,781-647-1813 wrote:

> 	DON'T DO THAT! 
> 
> Whever not?  Isn't this how .Xresources is supposed to be used?  Just
> shouting  at  someone  to NOT DO something isn't very helpful, unless
> you give some explanation as to what you're shouting to not  do.   Do
> you mean to not use .Xresources? How about .Xdefaults? Or do you mean
> to not use xterm* entries?  Or perhaps you're  shouting  to  not  use
> *font entries?  Or maybe you know of something broken specifically in
> xterm*font?

Well, you are right of course, but I was and still am short on time.
Ordinarily I would not do that, and I didn't really mean to leave it at
that but I was distracted by the task at hand. I don't remember exactly
what the deal is but I think that sets ALL the xterm fonts to the same
thing, causing the popup menus to all use the same font.


-- 
Derek D. Martin   |  UNIX System Administrator
derek at netria.com  |  dmartin at lancity.com

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