bug#4594: -Q does not ignore all X resources

[Jan Djärv]

30 sep 2009 kl. 06.50 skrev Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:

> > Current CVS trunk on GNU/Linux.
>
> > If I have items like:
>
> > Emacs.pane.menubar.*.Foreground: Red
> > Emacs.menu*.Foreground: Blue
> > Emacs.dialog*.foreground: Green
>
> > in my ~/.Xdefaults file, then `emacs -Q' continues to respect these
> > settings. I expected it to ignore _all_ Emacs-related X resources.
> > This feature would be more useful if it did so.
>
> Yes, the handling of X resources with -Q is imperfect:
> the X-resources that affect toolkit elements are still obeyed
> (because they access the X-resources more directly, without going
> through x_get_string_resource).  That's what you're seeing.
>
> Patches welcome,


Widgets managed by Xt reads resources automatically inside Xt code.
It is considered a feature. You probably can work around this but it  
isn't something as simply not calling a function or setting some  
variable.

Too much work for a small gain IMHO.

        Jan D.