Re: [Bug-XBoard] resources not used for xboard

[Eric Mullins]

h.g. muller wrote:
> At 18:25 9-12-2009 -0700, Eric Mullins wrote:
> > xboard no longer reads its resources.  ~/XBoard and ~/.Xresources are 
> > unchanged since previous version that read resources fine.
>
> What is in those files that you want XBoard to read?

Move sound, board and piece colors, ICS text colorization, board size, 
FICS ip address, path to timeseal, and various flags.

> Chances are that they should be considered deprecated,
> and their function has been taen over by ~/.xboardrc .

I copied the relevant portion of .Xresources into ~/.xboardrc.  No 
indication that this file is even being read from the debug log, and 
certainly none of the settings are being used.
> This is configurable, btw: the XBoard-specific user settings can
> be defined to reside in any file, specified in the system-wide
> settings file.

If I tell it to save settings now, I get a msgbox titled "Error": 
/etc/xboard/xboard.conf: Not a directory

When I look there, I see there is a /etc/xboard file, but no xboard.conf.

Following the syntax of /etc/xboard in my ~/.xboardrc didn't work 
either.  It clearly isn't being read.