Re: [vile] Configuration help wanted for .vilemenu and font resources

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 4 Sep 2010, Chris G wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 11:43:37AM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > I have a couple of minor configuration niggles that I can't work out.
> >
> > I have xvile 9.8 running on two Ubuntu 10.04 systems, one is my
> > desktop system running xubuntu and the other is a server system
> > running ubuntu server.  They have identical .vilerc, .vilemenu and
> > .app-defaults.  However they don't both work the same.
> >
> > When I ssh to the server system and run xvile there to display on my
> > desktop (ssh -X) the menu is as specified by the resources in
> > .app-defaults/XVile:-
> >
> >     XVile.menuBackground: grey70
> >     XVile.menuForeground: black

hmm - I see that this has "never" worked as you might expect.

I started to answer by suggesting that it might be due to some
difference from xvile's assumptions in widget hierarchy.  Then
I saw that the resource value would be shown in a debug trace.

So... I compiled xvile with a debug trace to give an example.
But it did not appear there.  The answer is the value for 
OPT_MENUS_COLORED (defined in estruct.h to 0).  That's been
that way since it was added in 1998.

I can add a configure option, but for a quick fix just editing estruct.h
will get something that responds to the resource settings.  When I
do that, I see immediately that there's a change, and that the resource
setting is honored.

hth

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