bug#38495: Emacs ignores ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-hostname

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Andrea Cardaci <cyrus.and@gmail.com> writes:

    > Hi, I'm trying the master version
    > (0e774d4f355b4f12a625da5ca9602d1ba876bcc1) and these two files are
    > now ignored by Emacs, it used to work in version 26.1, well it
    > used to load the .Xdefaults-hostname file but even that version
    > ignored .Xdefaults while this page says otherwise:

    > 
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/efaq/Emacs-ignores-X-resources.html

    > In any case the master version now ignores both files. But,
    > according to strace, it opens that file:

    >> $ strace -f /opt/emacs/bin/emacs |& grep Xdefaults [pid 11310]
    >> openat(AT_FDCWD, "/home/cyrus/.Xdefaults-hostname", O_RDONLY) = 6

    > Instead (discovered via strace) Emacs uses the
    > ~/.Xdefaults/hostname file, this actually works but it's
    > undocumented and doesn't work in Emacs 26.1.


Today's pull from master reads my ~/.Xdefaults satisfactorily.


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Colin Baxter
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