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Subject:	rxvt-20050409-9 or (less likely) new X clobbered my app-defaults/Rxvt
From:	ht AT inf DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk (Henry S. Thompson)
Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:13:50 +0000
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I updated my cygwin installation, and lost my personal settings in
app-defaults/Rxvt (now relocated).  I presume this is a side effect of
the 'addition' of some backgroundPixmap stuff to that file, per the
description of rxvt-20050409-9 2008-11-15 in
/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-20050409.README

If I'm right that this change overwrites, without backing up, the
whole app-defaults/Rxvt file, that's. . .unhelpful.

Looking at the preremove and postinstall scripts, it looks like this
might have been inadvertent, in that the postinstall script installs
the default in /etc/X11/app-defaults only if there is nothing there
already (correct), _but_ the preremove script in fact removes
/etc/X11/app-defaults/Rxvt (incorrect)!

Many thanks to Chuck Wilson for maintaining this package, but in
future, please try harder not to trash config files without saving a
backup. . .

ht
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