Re: ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xresources.
On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 07:52:52AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote:
> [07:50:59 /tmp]$ zgrep -A7 "Chris Gray" /usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-txt/Emacs-Begin
> ner-HOWTO.txt.gz | head -8
> Chris Gray (cgray4@po-box.mcgill.ca) also notes:
>
>
> In Debian, the ~/.Xdefaults doesn't seem to be used. How
> ever, Debian people can put what you have given in
> /etc/X11/Xresources/emacs and they can have the pretty col
> ors that they had when they were using RedHat.
>
> [07:51:02 /tmp]$
>
> Is it correct? What is the reasoning this is done? Is it documented somewhere
> under /usr/share/doc?
You should be able to put your customizations in ~/.Xresources and have
them read automatically at the beginning of an X session. See
/etc/X11/Xsession.
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