Xdefaults

[Jerry Natowitz]

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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