Re: .Xresources not loaded
Once upon a time Nicos Gollan said...
> 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.
Make sure that you have "allow-user-resources" in
/etc/X11/Xsession.options . It looks like the user's .Xresources file
should be merged by the /etc/X11/Xsession startup script (more
specifically, the script /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30xfree86-common_xresources
loads the resources)
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