Bug#348697: Explanation from upstream author

I asked [1] Marc Lehmann about this issue, and he replied "rxvt-unicode neither installs nor comes nor requires a system-wide app-defaults file, so it doesn't read one. Administrators and users can create their own config by setting XAPPLRESDIR." I tested this on my system with XAPPLRESDIR

Bug#348697: Bug reproducible, faulty version is 7.0

Hi, to be sure I downloaded rxvt-unicode versions 7.0 and 6.3, the latest before 7.0, from the upstream site and compiled them with default options. Version 6.3 works as expected, 7.0 shows the bug. strace shows that app-defaults/URxvt is not being opened anymore, so the reason its settings are n