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> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Brian Mathis wrote:
>> On 9/19/07, Richard Toy <richard DOT toy AT XXXXX DOT XXX> wrote:
>>> I don't tend to run an xserver so rxvt runs in native mode when
>>> invoked via chere.
>>>
>>> All was working ok but then an issue described here
>>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-09/msg00359.html occurred so I needed
>>> some was to make the chere invoked rxvt appear with the correct font.
>>>
>>> I solved it with a bit of sed: -
>>>
>> In native mode, rxvt still uses the .Xdefaults file to read settings.

That's the recommended solution for this particular problem.

Igor Peshansky wrote:
> The .Xdefaults solution will affect all instances of rxvt, not just the
> one spawned by chere.

Yep, I've been aware of that for a while - which is why I asked what the OP was trying solve. I've just been a bit slow  updating chere since there haven't been many specific requests/problem reports for it.

Anyway, I'll bump this up my priority list.


Dave.
chere maintainer

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