Re: .Xresources for xless

[Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net>]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:27:55AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:07:35AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> > Running up-to-date Buster here, amd64:
> > Linux debian.localdomain 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.98-1+deb10u1
> > (2020-04-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > 
> > I have moved to a display manager (wmd), so is my xrdb ~/.Xresources line
> > (xrdb ~/.Xresources) in .xinitrc being called into the loop, so to speak?
> 
> You can use "xrdb -query" to find out.
> 
> In general, I would *not* expect ~/.xinitrc to be used by a display
> manager login.  Even when you were presumably using startx, you were
> supposed to have moved the ~/.xinitrc to ~/.xsession decades ago.
> 
> The ~/.xsession file is used by traditional display manager logins (xdm)
> as well as by Debian's startx.


Ahah!  Finally!  After 7 years of twisty little mazes, the _real_ reason his `.bashrc` would not load, was revealed to his tired and dungeon weary eyes.  He cracked out The One in a faint and final hope of Success At Last™©®, and before he knew what was happening...