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Xdefaults



It stopped working during one of the fedora upgrades, I think going from 
8->10.

Cheers. Steve.

Jerry Natowitz wrote:
> Ouch!  This seems to be window manager dependent, Xfce still uses 
> $HOME/.Xdefaults, all the other WMs I have don't.  Solaris 10 also uses 
>    I notice that Solaris 10 still uses $HOME/.Xdefaults.
>
> Any history on this change?
>
>
>
> 	Jerry Natowitz
> 	j.natowitz-KealBaEQdz4 at public.gmane.org
>
>
> Matthew Gillen wrote:
>   
>> Stephen Adler wrote:
>>     
>>> What's the correct method of setting up your environment using the 
>>> .Xdefaults like file. the reason I ask is that for a long time I've put 
>>> all my emacs* configuration settings in an .Xdefults file in my home 
>>> directory, all was good. But now, my .Xdefaults file is being ignored 
>>> when I log in. What's the new .Xdefaults file where I should put all my 
>>> X11 configuration settings?
>>>       
>> Try ~/.Xresources.  You can poke around in /etc/X11/xinit/ to see some of 
>> the other dot files that get referenced (that one on my fedora system is in 
>> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common)
>>
>> HTH,
>> Matt
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