Reading X11/app-defaults/ ?

[Thomas Kappler]

Hi Marc & list,

from version 7.0 on, rxvt-unicode has stopped to read 
X11/app-defaults/URxvt. The change doesn't reflect in the changelog, it 
only says "removed support for locale-specific app-defaults file", but 
the change makes it disregard app-defaults/ regardless of the locale.

Is this a bug or a "feature"? At least it breaks Debian's way of 
configuring things, but I don't know if that's standard or not.
In case it's a feature, perhaps you should elaborate a bit on it in the FAQ.

At the end of the mail I included a patch that restores reading 
app-defaults/URxvt regardless of the locale. It's not meant to be used, 
just for perhaps seeing more quickly where the relevant code is. I 
copy'n'pasted the code from 6.3's Xdefaults.C to the equivalent place.

Regards,
Thomas


--- rxvt-unicode-7.5/src/rxvttoolkit.C	2006-01-31 01:17:54.000000000 +0100
+++ rxvttoolkit.C	2006-02-19 15:57:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -268,6 +268,12 @@
    // 6. System wide per application default file.

    /* Add in $XAPPLRESDIR/Rxvt only; not bothering with 
XUSERFILESEARCHPATH */
+//TK
+  /* Add in Rxvt file */
+    rdb1 = XrmGetFileDatabase (XAPPLOADDIR "/" RESCLASS);
+    XrmMergeDatabases (rdb1, &database);
+//TK
+
    if ((xe = (char *)getenv ("XAPPLRESDIR")))
      {
        snprintf (fname, sizeof (fname), "%s/%s", xe, RESCLASS);