x-resource not working?

[Mark L. <la...@mi...>]

I have been using modules-2.2beta for a long time and it's work rather well.
We've finally got some RH7.2 machines that won't run the old code because for
some reason, TCL8.3 is not backwards compatible with TCL8.0 !

I've tried 3.x a few times, only to hit segv's on 'module unload ...'. So I
thought I would try 3.1.6 one more time, and while I am not getting the segvs,
the x-resource command is not doing anything.

In my module file, I have:

 x-resource {Iexplorer*background: #c0c0c0}

while when I query the xrdb, I get:

% xrdb -query
! screen-independent resources
:       #c0c0c0

which you can see has lost the "Iexplorer*background" bit. I've gone through
the code with the gdb debugger, and it seems that this is a problem in the
modulecmd program, because I see the line where it calls XChangeProperty() and
it is missing the "Iexplorer*background" bit also. Is there some trick to get
this to work? It used to work great in 2.2.  Except for the installation path,
I'm using all the defaults for ./configure.

(and someone else has gone through the code and misspelled the word "ressource"
[sic] in the comments ... it was fine in 2.2)

There are some other problems with x-resource hanging or crashing ungracefully
if $DISPLAY and/or xhost is not set correctly, but I'll worry about that
later...

 -Mark


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