On Fri, 25 May 2007, Bill Mills-Curran wrote:

I've searched and have not found the answer to this issue.

gv in the Ubuntu feisty fox distro does not seem to observe the resource file. In particular the auto-refresh and reverse scroll do not work.

My resource file is ~/.gv and contains:

GV.reverseScrolling: TRUE GV.watchFile: TRUE GV.autoResize: FALSE

This did work on Red Hat FC4, but the same file does not work in Ubuntu.

Am I doing something wrong or have I found a bug?

I think resource settings "reside" in the X server at run-time, so you could try manually adding those particular ones like so, (with queries before and after for testing), $ xrdb -query $ xrdb -merge ~/.gv $ xrdb -query Then run gv again. If it works, maybe you could add it to your X startup, however that works on your $DISTRO+$DESKTOP+etc... In the past I've also used ggv, which is gnome-ified gv. -Jamie