Docs? what docs? Grrrr

[athanasius]

So, any of you who have used X-Windows (ok, ok, The X Windowing System, but that's a mouthful) for long, especially with a lot of use of xterms will know the default annoyance that is copy and pasting between xterms and more modern X apps

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[nevalicori]

Oooh, excellent!

I think you can simply xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults rather than restarting X (as most xinitrc/xsession files simply do just that; neither the X server nor xdm themselves will read ~/.Xdefaults, I don't think.

[athanasius]

You can do the xrdb -merge thing, I did in fact use that whilst fiddling.

But it won't affect extant xterms. And if you like me and have many of those carefully placed, named etc at startup it's less hassle to just restart X :). I had to keep starting new xterms to test the changes.

It was 'fun' to screw things up such that an xterm would show the shell prompt from startup, but take no input, and although I could Ctrl+Mousebutton for a menu the menu was inoperative and wouldn't close ;).

[jasontheknight]

GNOME is love

[athanasius]

Irrelevant *if* you're a die-hard xterm fan like me. The fault is with xterm's default settings, not anything to do with the window manager or other framework stuff.

Sure, if you're not a die-hard xterm fan you can go use Gnome's 'terminal' or whatever which no doubt does the right thing with this anyway. I wouldn't know, I steer clear of the bloat, and curse every time I end up installing a KDE or Gnome based app and it pulls in 100 libraries just so it can start....

Clueless

[kroets]

This whole entry just crossed my eyes, but I wanted to say hey and it's good to hear from you. *hugs* Sorry I missed you this summer.