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

[Chris G]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 08:31:55AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 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.
> 
Ah, yes, on checking I find that the menu background colour on the
system where 'it works' just happens to be approximately grey70 for
some reason unconnected with my resource setting.


> 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.
> 
So I just need to rebuild xvile with OPT_MENUS_COLORED set to a
non-zero value and the menu colours should work?  Just tried it, yes,
I now have a menubackground as I have specified, thank you!

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Chris Green