rxvt : 1.5 vs. 1.7
Charles Wilson
cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Tue May 11 05:55:00 GMT 2010
On 5/10/2010 3:18 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> Oleksandr Gavenko wrote:
>> My preferred ~/.Xdefaults ?
>
> That would mean linking against Xlib or reimplementing relevant parts
> of the X resource system.
Maybe not. rxvt itself does NOT use the Xlib code to read .Xdefaults;
it has its own homegrown code to do so. So, you /could/ copy that
implementation over into mintty...
> And break compatibility for existing mintty
> users, or support two different settings systems.
But this is an extremely good argument for NOT doing that.
--
Chuck
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