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Where and how have to be put resources for an X-application (xterm, for instance) in the quoted os ?

I tried almost all the tricks I knew:

1) search for a system-wide XTerm file in a directory app-defaults and adding there my own resources: I found one in /usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults, but neither copying it in /usr/share/X11/app-defaults nor in /usr/lib64/X11/app-defaults made the resources to be recognized.

2) Create both a .Xresources and a .Xdefaults file in my home directory with the required resources, written in all possible syntaxes (making use of dots and asterisks as you wish): for instance

     *XTerm*VT100*height: 1000

There was no way to have this resource applied...

3) Naming in turn .Xresources and .Xdefaults as XTerm: no success...

So what can be done?

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  • I forgot: I have also used editres to set the resource in the running application, again without any success.
    – GSi
    Dec 22, 2015 at 10:30

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After modifying .Xresources as follow:

XTerm.VT100.geometry: 80x1000

You have to merge the resources:

xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

I could not find any reference to VT100*height.

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  • The height resource was only a (wrong) sample. The problem held true for valid resources too. Anyway I found another solution, as I quote in the answer to my own question.
    – GSi
    Jan 7, 2016 at 10:21
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Naming .Xdefaults-myhostname in the home directory the file with the customized resources (instead of simply .Xdefaults) works without merging anything. Of course myhostname stands for the output of the hostname command...

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