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Re: ~/.Xdefaults



on Fri, May 18, 2001 at 12:29:24PM +0100, Brian Potkin (brian@copernicus.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 11:50:47AM +0100, Keith O'Connell wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have not until recently had cause to use this file, but I put some
> > Netscape modifications in it. I assumed that with a name like
> > .Xdefaults, it would load the default values when the X-Server started,
> > but
> > apparently not. 
> > 
> > It seems that to get this file read into the system I have to go to a
> > terminal and type;
> > 
> >         "xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults"
> 
> Debian uses the file ~/.Xresources for your personal modifications.

Different X startup mechanisms refer variously to ~/.Xdefaults or
~/.Xresources.  I simply hardlink the two files together to cover both
bases.  You can also explicitly load resources in your startup script,
~/.xinitrc.

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