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Here's a question that I cannot find a definitive answer to. I'm running X on #OpenBSD and I have started configuring my .Xresources but I can't find out if it matters whether a line has capitals or all lowercase. For example:

XTerm*faceSize: 10

is this just the same does it not matter ?

xterm*faceSize: 10

Sorry but if it does not matter, if I start XTerm or xterm then that's good as having both just now plays on my OCD. :D
#OpenBSD folk I haven't yet installed a WM yet so am still just running in the ksh tty. I have the likes of colorls aliased to ls which works great. My issue is I have just installed btop and when run it looks garbage all text hardly readable. Am I missing some font or configuration as it works in the tty on my FreeBSD laptop ?

Decided to boot into the Windows 11 SSD of my Evoo laptop which is the one that primarily runs #OpenBSD so that I could update it. It had been a while since I'd booted into it, so much so that even Firefox was at version 129 and LibreOffice was still numbered as 7.5. After an entire morning of Windows itself updating, I updated the apps I could from work. Steam may have to wait until I get home.

I'm still waiting on some post-24H2 updates to finish, and then I can boot back into the sanity of my OpenBSD SSD. :puffer::runbsdBg:#RunBSD #BSD

Wow, very damning mail from Ingo Schwarze to #OpenBSD tech@ about upstream regressions in xterm(1), which apparently has no public version control. :flan_think:

So i think given your research results which i'm leaving in place below. we have positive proof that upstream deliberately and systematically ruined the security features of xterm(1), even those that have been - and still are - documented on their own website.

marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=17

marc.info'Re: timing-dependent(?) display in xterm(1)' - MARC
Replied to Justine Smithies

@justine

For all its missing features, it's dead easy to get a decent GUI up and running with #OpenBSD.

#FreeBSD has a lot of capabilities, but takes some work to get going.

NomadBSD is elegant, and works well, but you only get a choice of a single desktop (IIRC), and kind of like Arch Linux derivatives, if something happens and you're left with a non-functioning system, you're a bit at a loss for what to do, because someone else essentially set it up for you.