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Re: guidance for making a .Xresources file.



On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 04:32:05PM EST, Dr. Ed Morbius wrote:

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> They do?
> 
> It's not configured by default or populated in /etc/skel.  I doubt
> "most" users would go about adding one themselves.  

Trust the little beggars..

> Yes, _if_ you're going to specify custom xrdb resources, that's the
> default place to do so, but for the bulk of the userbase, that's
> probably two or three levels of obscure arcana.

.. drop your guard and reality ‘obscurely’ hits back and bites your ass.

> An empty .Xresources should work just fine, but if that's required by
> the tightvnc (or other) package, I'd file a bug.

Odd vnc4server doesn't have this particular issue. Someone and somebody
are apparently not talking... 

cj


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