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    From Anton Shepelev@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 18 01:51:58 2022
    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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  • From Chris Green@21:1/5 to Anton Shepelev on Sun Sep 18 09:22:31 2022
    Anton Shepelev <[email protected]> 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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  • From Anton Shepelev@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 18 19:28:45 2022
    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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  • From Chris Green@21:1/5 to Anton Shepelev on Sun Sep 18 18:05:57 2022
    Anton Shepelev <[email protected]> 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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