Re: How to *not* restore screen after viewing man pages in X
On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:03:38PM -0400, Bill Benedetto wrote:
> Bill> You did log out and back in after updating your .Xdefaults,
> Bill> right?
>
> Matijs> Yes, I did. Didn't work.
>
> Glyn> or just do
> Glyn>
> Glyn> xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults
>
> Matijs> Haven't tried that yet. Ok, that makes
> Matijs>
> Matijs> xrdb -query
> Matijs>
> Matijs> actually return what's in my .Xdefaults.
> Matijs>
> Matijs> Shouldn't this happen automatically when I login to X?
>
> Yes, it should happen automagically.
>
> However, I am not sure if all X (gnome, kde, enlightenment,
> whatever) uses ~/.Xdefaults .
>
> Does anyone *KNOW* if all X uses ~/.Xdefaults ?? Is there
> somewhere else that Matijs should be trying to put his resources?
Well, after some more digging and finally looking at the files in
/etc/gdm/Sessions, I found that those sessions want me to put the stuff
in ~/.Xresources. And lo! it works. I think this should be documented
somewhere, e.g., in man gdm.
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Note that I use Debian version 3.0
Linux mus 2.4.17mvz4 #1 Fri Mar 15 23:30:15 CET 2002 i686 unknown
Matijs van Zuijlen
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