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Re: xterm colors / sawfish fonts



Hi,

Ross Burton <ross@burtonini.com> writes:

> > I just commented out all the text in the files at 
> > /usr/share/control-center-2.0/xrdb/
> > (a "!" at the begining of each line), and my applications recovered
> > their old look. Unfortunatelly this change will be lost at next upgrade,
> > since they are not conffiles.
> 
> I just posted a cleaner per-user solution, which may be more suitable.
> 

I just saw it, and was going to tank you.

> > An easy way would be 
> > 
> > .- /usr/share/control-center-2.0/xrdb/* are soft links to somewhere in
> > /etc/ , and the files in /etc are conffiles.
> 
> The path to the files is a single #define in gnome-control-center, so
> the Debian packages could change that path to /etc/gnome/xrdb or
> something.
> 
> > .- A note on /usr/share/doc/gnome-control-center/README.Debian
> > explaining the subject. (I have read that interactive debconf questions
> > should be kept to a minimum).
> 
> Christian, if you want I can draft the notes for this as I wrote this
> feature.
> 

Actually, since the per user solution is so easy, a simple note in the
lines of

"New in GNOME 2.4: 
GNOME now sets X resources for non-GNOME applications to follow the
same look and feel of GNOME as far as possible. The default Xresources
files are located at /usr/share/control-center-2.0/xrdb . Files in
~/.gnome2/xrdb/ directory override the default Xresources on a per-user
basis." 

somewhere in the documentation (be it README.Debian, or somewhere else)
should be sufficient. If it is already there, please forgive my
ignorance (and I would appreaciate a pointer to it).

Best regards, 

Jaume

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