Re: [vile] Minor X resources problem with xvile menu

[Thomas Dickey]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:17:02PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:12:23PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > I don't seem to be able to change the xvile menu colours with X
> > resources.  Everything else in my xvile resources file works but the
> > menu colours stay obstinately at white on black.
> > 
> > I have:-
> > 
> >     ...
> >     ..
> >     ..
> >     XVile.foreground: black
> >     XVile.background: grey90
> > 
> >     XVile.menuBackground: grey80
> >     XVile.menuForeground: yellow
> > 
> >     XVile.selection.background: green4
> >     XVile.selection.foreground: white
> > 
> >     XVile.cursor.background: blue
> >     XVile.cursor.foreground: grey90
> >     ...
> >     ...
> >     ..
> > 
> > (I just changed it to yellow to see if it did anything, it didn't)
> > 
> > I'm pretty sure this was working on the previous build (which was 9.8f
> > without perl), I'm now on 9.8g with perl.? In fact, yes it was working
> > with 9.8f as I still have a 9.8f copy running and the menu is grey
> > background and black foreground.
> > 
> Well it *was* working with 9.8f but if I run that version now (I found a
> copy in my daily backups) I get the black menu background with white
> text so it's something to do with what the new 9.8g build has installed.
> 
> The 9.8f with grey menu was one that I?had left running from before
> doing the 9.8g build.

odd: the last time I changed XVile.ad was about midway between 9.8e and 9.8f,
and that was only to add a comment.  Revision 1.7 (also between e and f)
made this change:

--- XVile.ad    2010/03/20 13:19:36     1.6
+++ XVile.ad    2010/09/05 13:56:38     1.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-! $Header: /usr/build/vile/vile/macros/RCS/XVile.ad,v 1.5 2010/02/26 10:38:35 
tom Exp $
+! $Header: /usr/build/vile/vile/macros/RCS/XVile.ad,v 1.6 2010/03/20 13:19:36 
tom Exp $
 
 ! "white" on "black" main window
 *background: grey5
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@
 *menubar.vSpace: 1
 *menubar.hSpace: 1
 *menuHeader.highlightThickness: 1
+
+! OPT_MENUS_COLORED
+*menuBackground: grey
+*menuForeground: black
 
 ! options
 *focusFollowsMouse: true

...but that doesn't seem to be the immediate cause of the problem
because it is the opposite of what you're describing.

There was some discussion at the time that I incorporated the Debian
package's set of resources (in revision 1.5 from 2010/02/26).

For what it's worth, I've attached the output from "appres XVile"
(sorted) for comparison.

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