Re: KDE Questions

["Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@ccs.neu.edu>]

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On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Stephen A. Witt wrote:

> 1) I'm having trouble modifying X resources using xrdb. In my .xsession
> file I do:
> 
> if [ -f ~/.Xdefaults ]; then
>     xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
> fi
> 
>   before I start KDE but these resources don't seem to be read when KDE
> starts. If I do xrdb -merge ... manually the resources are loaded.

The only thing I can think of here is that KDE's krdb program is
overwriting your resources when it runs.  It is run in the startkde
script...Somewhere in the kde control panels there's a toggle button where
you can tell it not ot apply KDE colors and things to non-KDE apps.  Try
turning this off and see if your resource file works.

> 2) kdm has a way to select the windowing environment and it seems that it
> should remember the user's last session, but it isn't for me. It comes up
> defaulted to fvwm2, I change it to kde and kde starts normally. But the
> next time I login its back to fvwm2 again.

Well, you can't use a ~/.xsession file and kdm sessions together (I don't
think...maybe you can set up your .xsession to accept the same parameter
as /etc/X11/Xsession).  In any case, kdm saves your window manager
preferences in ~/.wmrc.  When you log in using something other than fvwm2,
does the .wmrc file show the session that you chose?  I suspect that your
.xsession script is firing off fvwm2 or something.  If you removed the
.xsession script, I bet things would work.

noah

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