[3184] in testers
Re: Xresources under SGI 8.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Fields)
Mon Jun 2 14:11:21 1997
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 1997 14:11:15 -0400
From: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
To: sly@MIT.EDU
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
> To set Xresources for xterms on an 8.1 machine (SGI), the
> variables required are:
> XTerm.foo
> (or *foo, depending on what side of the fence you fall on)
> specifically in my case it's XTerm.foreground
> and XTerm.background
XTerm.foreground and XTerm.background do not work on the 8.0 or 8.1
SGIs I tested, and neither do xterm.foreground and background. Nor
would I expect them to - the relevant color resources in the X Toolkit
can't be reached that way, because they are several levels down.
However, using "*" instead of "." works in all cases of xterm and
XTerm and 8.0 and 8.1 as it should.
So I don't really understand what you are seeing... If things still
don't work if you change dots to stars, then I would be surprised. I'm
not sure what else to suggest.
Thanks for your report.
Craig Fields
I/S Athena
