bug#4594: -Q does not ignore all X resources

bug#4594: -Q does not ignore all X resources

[Glenn Morris]

Current CVS trunk on GNU/Linux.

If I have items like:

Emacs.pane.menubar.*.Foreground: Red
Emacs.menu*.Foreground: Blue
Emacs.dialog*.foreground: Green

in my ~/.Xdefaults file, then `emacs -Q' continues to respect these
settings. I expected it to ignore _all_ Emacs-related X resources.
This feature would be more useful if it did so.

bug#4594: -Q does not ignore all X resources

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 03:36, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:

> If I have items like:
>
> Emacs.pane.menubar.*.Foreground: Red
> Emacs.menu*.Foreground: Blue
> Emacs.dialog*.foreground: Green
>
> in my ~/.Xdefaults file, then `emacs -Q' continues to respect these
> settings. I expected it to ignore _all_ Emacs-related X resources.
> This feature would be more useful if it did so.

Hmm. The only (non-Windows) function I modified to obey
inhibit_x_resources was xrdb.c:x_get_string_resource.

I don't have an X environment. If you can determine which other
functions should be modified, that'd be great.

    Juanma

bug#4594: -Q does not ignore all X resources

[Glenn Morris]

Glenn Morris wrote:

> Current CVS trunk on GNU/Linux.

I forgot to say, using the lucid toolkit (probably relevant).

bug#4594: -Q does not ignore all X resources

[Stefan Monnier]

> Current CVS trunk on GNU/Linux.

> If I have items like:

> Emacs.pane.menubar.*.Foreground: Red
> Emacs.menu*.Foreground: Blue
> Emacs.dialog*.foreground: Green

> in my ~/.Xdefaults file, then `emacs -Q' continues to respect these
> settings. I expected it to ignore _all_ Emacs-related X resources.
> This feature would be more useful if it did so.

Yes, the handling of X resources with -Q is imperfect:
the X-resources that affect toolkit elements are still obeyed
(because they access the X-resources more directly, without going
through x_get_string_resource).  That's what you're seeing.

Patches welcome,


        Stefan

bug#4594: -Q does not ignore all X resources

[Jan Djärv]

30 sep 2009 kl. 06.50 skrev Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:

>> Current CVS trunk on GNU/Linux.
>
>> If I have items like:
>
>> Emacs.pane.menubar.*.Foreground: Red
>> Emacs.menu*.Foreground: Blue
>> Emacs.dialog*.foreground: Green
>
>> in my ~/.Xdefaults file, then `emacs -Q' continues to respect these
>> settings. I expected it to ignore _all_ Emacs-related X resources.
>> This feature would be more useful if it did so.
>
> Yes, the handling of X resources with -Q is imperfect:
> the X-resources that affect toolkit elements are still obeyed
> (because they access the X-resources more directly, without going
> through x_get_string_resource).  That's what you're seeing.
>
> Patches welcome,


Widgets managed by Xt reads resources automatically inside Xt code.
It is considered a feature. You probably can work around this but it  
isn't something as simply not calling a function or setting some  
variable.

Too much work for a small gain IMHO.

         Jan D.