Hello, all

On my RPi, I cannot seem to configure custom terminal
colors in a persistent manner.

1. I duly saved them under ~/.Xresouces, and
2. merged: xrdb -merge .Xresource

Now, when I restart xterm the new colors put in effect, but
after restart they are gone again. Must I manually load them
at startup from ~/.profile ?

P.S.: "Where is everybody?"

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Anton Shepelev <antoff.txt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, all
>
> On my RPi, I cannot seem to configure custom terminal
> colors in a persistent manner.
>
> 1. I duly saved them under ~/.Xresouces, and
> 2. merged: xrdb -merge .Xresource
>
> Now, when I restart xterm the new colors put in effect, but
> after restart they are gone again. Must I manually load them
> at startup from ~/.profile ?
>
> P.S.: "Where is everybody?"
>
Well I'm here lurking still! :-)

I have my X resources in a directory ~/.app-defaults with a file for
each X program in there. I actually only have X resources for my
editor xvile but it does seem to work OK.

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Chris Green to Anton Shepelev:

> > On my RPi, I cannot seem to configure custom terminal
> > colors in a persistent manner.
> >
> > 1. I duly saved them under ~/.Xresouces, and
> > 2. merged: xrdb -merge .Xresource
> >
> > Now, when I restart xterm the new colors put in effect,
> > but after restart they are gone again. Must I manually
> > load them at startup from ~/.profile ?
> >
> > P.S.: "Where is everybody?"
> >
> Well I'm here lurking still! :-)

Just as well, for Usenet needs a revival in our day of
proprietary and centralised communication media. But you
missed the reference to the pilot episode of "Twilight
zone"?

> I have my X resources in a directory ~/.app-defaults with
> a file for each X program in there. I actually only have
> X resources for my editor xvile but it does seem to work
> OK.

Good for you. Perhaps the automatically loaded files
depend on system and configuration? Is that on a Pi or not?
Can you (or anybody else) suggest a way to troubleshoot it
or determine which files are loaded at start-up? I guess I
will ask the Pi guys...

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Anton Shepelev <antoff.txt@gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris Green to Anton Shepelev:
>
> > > On my RPi, I cannot seem to configure custom terminal
> > > colors in a persistent manner.
> > >
> > > 1. I duly saved them under ~/.Xresouces, and
> > > 2. merged: xrdb -merge .Xresource
> > >
> > > Now, when I restart xterm the new colors put in effect,
> > > but after restart they are gone again. Must I manually
> > > load them at startup from ~/.profile ?
> > >
> > > P.S.: "Where is everybody?"
> > >
> > Well I'm here lurking still! :-)
>
> Just as well, for Usenet needs a revival in our day of
> proprietary and centralised communication media. But you
> missed the reference to the pilot episode of "Twilight
> zone"?
>
> > I have my X resources in a directory ~/.app-defaults with
> > a file for each X program in there. I actually only have
> > X resources for my editor xvile but it does seem to work
> > OK.
>
> Good for you. Perhaps the automatically loaded files
> depend on system and configuration? Is that on a Pi or not?
> Can you (or anybody else) suggest a way to troubleshoot it
> or determine which files are loaded at start-up? I guess I
> will ask the Pi guys...
>
I do run several Pi systems but the above is actually on a system
running xubuntu.

You need to be sure the resource files are named *exactly* right for
the app whose resources you are trying to set. I know it took me
quite a while to get mine to be loaded automatically at system startup
and most of the pain was in getting the exact right names. It's quite
a while ago I did this thought so I can't remember much detail.

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