Re: [vile] Simplest way to set X resources for xvile when running as a remote client?

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Chris G wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 04:23:34PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Chris G wrote:
> >
> > > What's the simplest way to set the X resources for xvile running on a
> > > remote client?
> > >
> > > When running xvile on my desktop machine (i.e. both X client and
> > > server are the same machine) it's easy as the resources are in my
> > > ..Xresources file and get read and loaded automatically.  However this
> > > doesn't work with a remote client.
> > >
> > > Do I need to make a copy of the .Xresources on the remote machine and
> > > install and run xrdb there, or is there a simpler way?
> >
> > I generally don't use xrdb, but set XAPPLRESDIR to point to my own
> > app-defaults directory.  For that case, I'd have a copy of the
> > directory
> > on the remote machine.
> >
> > If xrdb is used, it pre-sets values which don't get overridden by the
> > app-defaults files (if they happen to have the same pattern).  Using
> > the environment variable, updates are as simple as updating the
> > resource file and restarting the program.
> Thanks, but can you clarify a little.
>
> I can set up a directory with the xvile resources in on the remote
> client machine, that's easy.  What else do I need to do?  Do I just
> set XAPPLRESDIR in the shell on the remote machine that's running
> xvile or do I need to set it on the local server machine somewhere?
>
> .... I've tried setting XAPPLRESDIR on the remote shell before calling
> xvile, no effect at all (which is rather what I expected).

I do this, e.g.,
setenv XAPPLRESDIR ~/app-defaults

and in that directory, have the class-named files such as "XVile", 
"XTerm", etc.

Just because it's Friday, I did double-check just now - setting the
resources up on the remote machine makes the change come out "here".

If it's not working, then I'd assume that your xrdb settings on the X
window (the server) are overriding the settings in the remote app-defaults
file.

> Just to reiterate my desktop machine is 'chris' and is the X server,
> I'm then doing 'ssh mws' (where mws is the name of a remote machine)
> and then I'm running xvile on the machine mws with the display being
> on my desktop X server.
>
> On the remote shell where I'm running xvile the DISPLAY variable is
> set to localhost:12.0 which makes xvile display on my local desktop, I
> need some way to set xvile's resources for this display.

yes, that happens using ssh -X, etc.

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