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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 02:09:14AM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> 
> > Well, I'm out of clue.  I don't see where we have anything different
> > from debian for the Xresources for this.  I don't have a ~/.Xdefaults,
> > and the x11-common resource file is the same as from debian.
> 
> If I had something like that where I could test it, I'd see if I could use 
> strace to show which files were opened on startup.  iirc, a setting from 
> xrdb wouldn't show up in this way, but resource settings would.
> 
> (For this purpose, xterm runs fine without setgid, in case that 
> interferes).
> 
> something like
> 
>         strace -tfo foo.out xterm
> 
> would show that.  (I expect it to be large - compressed attachments are 
> nice ;-).  Tweaking uxterm to get the same information can be done by
> editing the last line of the script.

Here is strace from xterm and uxterm.

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Attachment: xterm-strace.out.gz
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