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Pekka Marjola <pema@iki.fi> writes:

> Actually, the man page says the the application must support resource
> loading that way (Xt). Just checked out... b15 works correctly, b16
> does not. I browsed through the b15-b16 patch, but didn't find out
> what's causing the change. Someone who made changes, please...
> 
> BTW, for example
> xemacs-20.3-b18 xrm "Emacs.Foreground: white" &
> does (still) work.

Well, glad it still works, since it has nothing to do with xemacs !!

The fundamental difference between Foreground and Desk resources is
that Foreground belongs to the standard Xt resource list. It's a Core
Widget Class resource, and is set by the Intrinsics without any
special treatment from the app.

To the contrary, Desk is not a standard resource, so it's up to the
application to catch it (XtGetApplication[Sub]Resource) and process as 
wished.

So, indeed, if this worked before, somebody changed something
somewhere sometime ...

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