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 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.

yes - I seem to recall some discussion pointing out that introducing this 
feature would change things, and that it wasn't by default for that 
reason.

I'll check/see how to set the default resources to match, and whether 
something like that can be used with Xaw, so it could be part of the 
default configuration.

> 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!

no problem

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