Re: emacs and .Xdefaults
Wintermute wrote:
>
> Kirk Hilliard wrote:
> >
> > Last week I issued a plea for help:
> > > I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to
> > > read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex.
> >
> > And Wintermute <wntrmute@tampabay.rr.com> came to the rescue:
> > > Try this..
> > >
> > > xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
> >
> > That does the job!
> >
> > Since it only works for the current X session, I added it to my
> > ~/.xsession file and all is fine. Still, I did not have to do this in
> > rex. Is this change a bug or a feature?
> >
>
> Actually this is a feature. You may find some helpful files in the
> /etc/X11 directory that hint at this. Particularly the one called
> /etc/X11/config. This file tells another configuration file (one that
> actually sets up the default environment) whether or not to allow things
> such as User Resources, User Xsession files, and the like to be included
> at start time, or be ignored. This seems to be a useless feature since
> even with XDM running, a user can execute the commands necessary to
> alter their environment after X has started through an XTERM. The only
> thing it might do is to enforce only a particular type of window
> manager.
> The config file should be changed to include the following lines:
>
> allow-user-resources
> allow-user-modmap
> allow-user-xsession
>
> If you are running XDM by default you will need to change to a free
> virtual terminal (CNTRL-ALT-F1), and stop the XDM process by running
> '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' as root, and then restart it with
> '/etc/init.d/xdm start'. Don't forget to change back to the virtual
> terminal again (CNTRL-ALT-F1) and log out.
>
> User resources will then be loaded from .Xdefaults in their home
> directory, also if one exists, it will attempt to execute a users
> ...xsession and .xmodmap files. The .xsession determines which commands
> will set up the environment for the session, and what window manager it
> should start. The .xmodmap file will contain keymapping for that
> particular session.
>
> Hope this helps.
As Gilbert Laycock also noticed, debian's (XFree in general?) setup
uses .Xresources instead of the old convention of .Xdefaults (ala
SunOS, etc.). See /etc/X11/Xsession to see where this is done.
--
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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