Re: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults
Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 18:37:46 EST "Daniel S. Barclay"
> (daniel@compass-da.com) wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > In Debian Linux, do files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ get read
> > or not?
>
> Definitely yes.
Never say never and never say always ;) ...see below
---[ nice description of how things are _supposed_ to work snipped]---
> The Xresources file is loaded into the server by the X init scripts with xrdb -merge. You may customize several applications into this file, eg:
> XTerm*background:red
> Xload*background: blue
>
> The precedence is:
> 1) resources passed in the command line
> 2) resources read in the X database (ie the /etc/X11/Xresources file)
> 3) static application resources in the app-defaults directory.
>
> Hope that helps...
> Phil.
I'm running a nearly vanilla Debian 1.2 system and my xrdb -merge is
broken! This may explain all the postings about app-defaults and
Xresourses not seeming to work.
To get /etc/X11/Xsession to merge Xresources correctly, I changed
xrdb -merge <foo>
to
xrdb -cpp /usr/bin/cpp -merge <foo>
everywhere. The problem seems to be related to the fact that /lib/cpp
is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/cpp. I don't know why this should matter
but it seems to. Is anyone else havingthis problem too? Try:
xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources
and see if you get a "Segmentation fault". If you do then you have the
same problem I do and
xrdb -cpp /usr/bin/cpp -merge /etc/X11/Xresources
will probably work just fine. It would be nice if some people try this
and post results to the list.
--Bob
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