Re: .Xdefaults being ignored

[David Gressett <jdgressett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jörg Sommer wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> David Gressett <jdgressett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>   
> > I just updated Fedora Core 6 on my Linux machine to Fedora 7, and it
> > broke my xjed startup. I had an .Xdefaults file to set geometry and font 
> > so as to produce an xjed window big enough to see on my 1280x1024 
> > display. Now, after the OS upgrade, the .Xdefaults file is being ignored.
> >     
>
> How about other applications? Do they ignore ~/.Xdefaults too?
>
> At me (Debian) the ~/.Xdefaults file is not handled by the system:
> % grep -r 'X[rd]' /etc/X11/Xsession* $(which startx xinit)
> /etc/X11/Xsession:SYSRESOURCES=/etc/X11/Xresources
> /etc/X11/Xsession:USRRESOURCES=$HOME/.Xresources
> /etc/X11/Xsession.xfree86:SYSRESOURCES=/etc/X11/Xresources
> /etc/X11/Xsession.xfree86:USRRESOURCES=$HOME/.Xresources
> /usr/bin/startx:# for .Xresources files and merge them in, startup up a window manager,
>
> I've put all my resource configurations in ~/.Xresources.
>
>   
> > I can add the appropriate options to the xjed command line and they work 
> > , but I would much prefer to revive .Xdefaults. Does anybody know how to 
> > fix this?
> >     
>
> You must call xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults if you use a non‐standard file
> name. Yes, the name of the file changed somewhen in the past.
>
> Bye, Jörg.
>   
xrdb fixed the problem. Thanks.

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