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Re: xterm colors - saga continues



On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 01:33:49PM -0400, Walt Reed wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:31:07PM +0100, Ross Burton said:
> > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:09, Walt Reed wrote:
> > > OK, seems that this fixed the default background colors, but something
> > > is overriding other settings. In addition to the background colors,
> > > something is messing with the vt100 colors and it's NOT in
> > > /usr/share/control-center-2.0/xrdb/*.ad
> > 
> > As the person who wrote the code in g-c-c, I can state that it only uses
> > ~/.gnome2/xrdb and /usr/share/control-center-2.0/xrdb, and then sources
> > .Xresources.
> 
> Um, yeah. So something ELSE is doing it, and I can't tell what. That's
> the problem. This is the basis for my objection to ANY application that
> modifies xresources for other applications. If they don't make the
> changes it in the standard locations for those defaults
> (/etc/X11/app-defaults or the more standard location of
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults which is a symlink in debian,) tracking
> them down is VERY VERY hard.

maybe you are (no longer|now) sourcing /etc/X11/Xresources/* ?

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