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Re: Home directory has blank space, X resources not recognized
- From: Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreisert at alum dot mit dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 10:52:22 -0600
- Subject: Re: Home directory has blank space, X resources not recognized
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> So I have moved my Cygwin ~ (home) directory to that folder. I
> configured nsswitch.conf as follows:
>
> db_home: /cygdrive/c/Users/reisert/Box%_Sync/Home
>
> Most things are working. However, my Xterms are coming up in the
> default 80x24 format with black text on a white background. The Xwin
> server does not seem to recognize my ~/.xserverrc file which contains
> simply:
I did not state this correctly. I should have written:
The Xwin server does not seem to recognize my ~/.Xresources file.
I can do this from an xterm:
xrdb ~/.Xresources
Then my X resources will get loaded properly.
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Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreisert@alum.mit.edu>, http://www.ad1c.us
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