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Re: .Xresources not loaded



On Sunday 25 August 2002 14:04, Preben Randhol wrote:
> I switched from GNOME with gdm and sawfish to use only blackbox on my
> old computer at home. I needed to reduce memory usage. I now do the
> login in console and start X with the startx command. However the
> .Xresources file is not loaded and I have to manually do:
>
>    xrdb load .Xresources
>
> is this file supposed to get loaded by default or must I add this
> line to .xinitrc?

Put it in .xinitrc. It doesn't seem to be "standard" or anything, I even 
had to add it to Xsession manually in a fresh XFree installation to 
have kdm/xdm load the file.

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