Re: xrdb

["Jens B. Jorgensen" <jens.jorgensen@cmgisolutions.com>]

Rather than creating your own xsession file try editing /etc/X11/Xsession.options and
make sure it has the line:

allow-user-resources

Then rename your .Xdefaults to .Xresources and then you can dump your .xsession. All
should work fine then.

Goeman Stefan wrote:

> Hello Everybody,
>
> I have put some things in a file .Xdefaults. I know that in order to make
> these settings active I have to do
> "xrdb .Xdefaults". This is no problem. The problem is that I want this
> command to be executed automatically
> when I login in a gnome session.
>
> Therefore I have created the file .xsession as follows (PS: I use gdm):
>
> xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults
> exec gnome-session
>
> This does not seem to work.
>
> Also, I have tried to put the "xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults" line into the
> .bash-profile (or .bashrc) file.
> Now I first have to start a terminal window in order to activate the
> settings in .Xdefaults.
>
> My question is, where do I have to put "xrdb $HOME/.Xdefaults" in order to
> have this executed when I log in a gnome session ?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stefan Goeman.
>
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