SOLVED: Problem with X resources on upgrade to RH-7.3/KDE-3.0.0-5

[Steven W. Orr]

On Fri, 17 May 2002, Steven W. Orr wrote:

=>This is complicated to explain, but please bear with me.
=>
=>I just upgraded from RH-7.2 to 7.3. My problem is that, for some reason, 
=>my backspace key no longer works in pine (as well as other problems). 
=>Here's my setup:
=>
=>I have a correct value set for my XFILESEARCHPATH and my 
=>XUSERFILESEARCHPATH variables. In my $XUSERFILESEARCHPATH I have a file 
=>called XTerm-color and in my .xinitrc I have this one line
=>
=>xrdb -load ~/.Xresources 2> /dev/null &
=>
=>My .Xresources simply sez:
=>*customization: -color
=>*StringConversionWarnings: on
=>
=>* In my XTerm-color I have (among other things)
=>*VT100*backarrowKey: true
=>*VT100.geometry:     80x72
=>
=>For some reason, now when I start an xterm, it comes up with 24 lines 
=>instead of the desired 80 and the backarrow key no longer works in pine. 
=>Instead I have to use the ^H key. In fact all of the resource setting I 
=>specify no longer seem to work. The odd thing is that the resources seem 
=>to work fine in gnome. Under KDE, the behavior seems to be broken. I know 
=>there used to be a setting someplace that said something about how 
=>resources should be controlled by kde for non-kde apps. 
=>
=>Can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here?
=>
=>TIA
Turns out to be a bug in the startkde script. Make your own personal copy 
of the script and add the following line *after* the call to kdeinit:

    xrdb -merge "$HOME/.Xresources"

A bug has been submitted to bugzilla #65137 and can be viewed at

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65137

Red Hat: Please fix this. Lots of things depend on X resources working 
properly. This bug broke all of the resources that I set in my resource 
files including xterm, emacs, xmris, xload, xlogo, xdvi, and bitmap. It is 
unacceptable to have to do an xrdb -load on a resource file at startup.

TIA

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