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

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Brendan O'Dea wrote:

> On 24 August 2010 00:22, Chris G <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hmmm, I've finally got back to this problem, I can't get XAPPLRESDIR
> > to do anything useful at all.
> >
> > I've removed my .Xresources file so that xrdb doesn't automatically
> > load the resources.  (xrdb -q returns nothing about xvile, so that has
> > worked)
> >
> > I've copied the Xvile resources to ~/.app-defaults/Xvile and I have
> > set XAPPLRESDIR to point to it:-
> >
> >    export XAPPLRESDIR=~/.app-defaults/Xvile
>
> Did you mean to include the trailing Xvile here?  You should not
> include it in the variable.  Note also that the filename should have a
> capital "V".

agree - The environment variable is for a directory, not a file.

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