For this instance of urxvt I have a strange formatting: there are substitutions of characters (like @ and ~) by rectangles. But if I run other instances of urxvt, this problem doesn’t show up.
Thanks for your replies.
I think I put the exec_always for testing purposes when trying the assignment stuff (if I’m not wrong exec_always allows to execute the program when i3 is restarted, not uniquely when the system reboots), so you are right, this is not useful anymore.
I tried with the * in place of . but I get the same result.
With a closer look, it seems that the font is not quite the same (or at least not the Mono version).
Could this first instance of urxvt read another config file?
What is very strange to me is that the other configurations of my .Xresources, like background and font colors, are correctly loaded by this first instance.
Could it be that the first instance is getting loaded too soon, i.e. before some other resources have had a chance to load? How early in the config does the line occur? Is it before the compositor or something? I’m just trying to think of what might have an effect on it.
could you please post your .xinitrc and the output of “xrdb -query” ?
Also check if “xrdb ~/.Xresources” does not show an output with errors
btw how do you start i3?
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I tried to reproduce it and I only got it in two occasions
first one was when I intentionally set a wrong config line in the Xresources file
Second one was when I did not set the following and left the xrdn line out of xinitrc. (I start i3 with startx and not with a graphical manager. )
# load the Xresources
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
# start the desktop
exec i3
A few observations that I might help (I hope):
1- The difference of fonts seems to be for the BOLD font only! Sorry, I didn’t notice that before.
2- I tried -title instead of -name, no changes.
3- I have two different results for xrdb -query depending if I execute xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources or not !! (see below)
4- I had exec 'xrdb ~/.Xresources' in my i3config file. I removed it, I also tried the -merge version, and in all cases I got the same result.
Here is the result of xrdb -query (I’ve shorten the color list):
The latter coincides with my ~/.Xresources.
In both cases (before and after the execution of 'xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources') the other instances of urxvt work well.
Here is my .xinitrc:
#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
DEFAULT_SESSION=gnome-session
merge in defaults and keymaps
[[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then
xrdb -merge "$userresources"
fi
if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi
# start some nice programs
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ] ; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/?*.sh ; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
get_session(){
local dbus_args=(--sh-syntax --exit-with-session)
case $1 in
awesome) dbus_args+=(awesome) ;;
bspwm) dbus_args+=(bspwm-session) ;;
budgie) dbus_args+=(budgie-desktop) ;;
cinnamon) dbus_args+=(cinnamon-session) ;;
deepin) dbus_args+=(startdde) ;;
enlightenment) dbus_args+=(enlightenment_start) ;;
fluxbox) dbus_args+=(startfluxbox) ;;
gnome) dbus_args+=(gnome-session) ;;
i3|i3wm) dbus_args+=(i3 --shmlog-size 0) ;;
jwm) dbus_args+=(jwm) ;;
kde) dbus_args+=(startkde) ;;
lxde) dbus_args+=(startlxde) ;;
lxqt) dbus_args+=(lxqt-session) ;;
mate) dbus_args+=(mate-session) ;;
xfce) dbus_args+=(xfce4-session) ;;
openbox) dbus_args+=(openbox-session) ;;
*) dbus_args+=($DEFAULT_SESSION) ;;
esac
echo "dbus-launch ${dbus_args[*]}"
}
exec $(get_session)
I changed this line but I still get the same result, even if I remove it completely.
If, from the i3config file, I remove exec 'xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources' and exec '~/.xinitrc'.
then all the instances of urxvt have this problem of font. But even in this case all these instances have the other configurations from .Xresources. So somehow .xinitrc or Xresources is loaded, right? There is definitely something I don’t understand.
I wonder why and it makes me wonder how you start your environment in the first place.
Do you use a graphical desktop manager?
(I guess you use “xinit i3” but I could be wrong
Second I wonder about is how do you start the new instances of urxvt?
In my original i3 config file I had exec 'xrdb ~/.Xresources' .
Then I tried a few changes in this file to see what happens and I replaced 'xrdb ~/.Xresources' by exec ~/.xinitrc at some point (well, probably it was a bit stupid).
I don’t know how the environment starts. I use Manjaro’s settings I suppose, there is lightDM as a greeter to select the desktops or wm (I also have gnome which was my former desktop).
To start urxvt instances I execute i3-sensible-terminal.
Here is part of my original i3config file (I removed most of the bindings and windows config, etc):
# reload the configuration file
bindsym $mod+Shift+c reload
# restart i3 inplace (preserves your layout/session, can be used to upgrade i3)
bindsym $mod+Shift+r restart
bindsym $mod+Return exec i3-sensible-terminal
exec --no-startup-id xss-lock --transfer-sleep-lock -- i3lock --nofork
exec_always --no-startup-id gnome-power-manager
exec --no-startup-id /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
exec "keepassxc"
exec "xrdb ~/.Xresources"
exec "urxvt -name base"
assign [class="^URxvt$" instance="^base$"] 0
exec --no-startup-id $HOME/.config/polybar/launch.sh
It is a long time ago I used LightDM but if I am not mistaking it does not do anything with .xinitrc (by default) but rather with .xprofile
Since it looks like there is an issue with reading the .Xresources file and your using a starter I have not uses in ages I don’t have any suggestions left.
Perhaps there is something in you LightDM config or in (if you have it) the .xprofile config what triggers this behavior.
