Nautilus open in terminal with urxvt not sourcing Xresources [solved]

orschiro · 2014-11-18 12:29:18

Hi there,

I followed the advice on the wiki page to launch an urxvt terminal from Open in terminal context menu entry.

However, it does not not seem to source my ~/.Xresources correctly.

Please see this screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/7Mxhbtk.jpg

Left window shows an urxvt instance that was normally launched. Right window was launched from Nautilus open in terminal and does not use the same settings as my left window.

Can someone reproduce the issue?

Installed packages:

nautilus 3.14.1-1
nautilus-open-terminal 0.20-2
rxvt-unicode-pixbuf 9.20-2

Thanks for your responses.

Last edited by orschiro (2015-01-24 22:55:19)

Trilby · 2014-11-18 12:33:16

This is covered in many forum threads, on the wiki, and in urxvt's man page: urxvt does not read .Xresources, it is not supposed to.

Either you merge the your Xresources (or any other file for that matter) into the resource database manually with xrdb, or use Xdefaults which urxvt does read.

orschiro · 2014-11-18 12:36:25

Hi Trilby,

It does read Xresources. I exclusively use Xresources without a separate Xdefaults and urxvt does respect the settings if launched normally.

I created a symlink from Xresources to Xdefaults but urxvt is not sourcing that one either if launched from Nautilus' open terminal.

Trilby · 2014-11-18 13:44:18

Then you mean you separately merge Xresources. Urxvt most definitely does not read Xresources, you can check the source code, it's simply not there. Only Xdefaults is.

What command is nautilus actually executing when it launches the terminal? If symlinking doesn't help then either nautilus is using a flag to prevent using xrdb entries, or it is setting the class name so entries for URxvt don't match. The latter can be tested by not including a class name in your database entries:

*.background: red

that should make it obvious if it works.

orschiro · 2015-01-24 22:54:55

The latter can be tested by not including a class name in your database entries:

Apologises for my late feedback. This does indeed work for all configuration except font related settings and clipboard pasting through keyboard shortcut. Anyway, I switched to Gnome Terminal for now.

Arch Linux

#1 2014-11-18 12:29:18

Nautilus open in terminal with urxvt not sourcing Xresources [solved]

#2 2014-11-18 12:33:16

Re: Nautilus open in terminal with urxvt not sourcing Xresources [solved]

#3 2014-11-18 12:36:25

Re: Nautilus open in terminal with urxvt not sourcing Xresources [solved]

#4 2014-11-18 13:44:18

Re: Nautilus open in terminal with urxvt not sourcing Xresources [solved]

#5 2015-01-24 22:54:55

Re: Nautilus open in terminal with urxvt not sourcing Xresources [solved]

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