Philippe Troin wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Jan 1997 18:37:46 EST "Daniel S. Barclay" > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > > > In Debian Linux, do files in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/ get read > > or not? > > Definitely yes.
Never say never and never say always ;) ...see below ---[ nice description of how things are _supposed_ to work snipped]--- > The Xresources file is loaded into the server by the X init scripts with xrdb > -merge. You may customize several applications into this file, eg: > XTerm*background:red > Xload*background: blue > > The precedence is: > 1) resources passed in the command line > 2) resources read in the X database (ie the /etc/X11/Xresources file) > 3) static application resources in the app-defaults directory. > > Hope that helps... > Phil. I'm running a nearly vanilla Debian 1.2 system and my xrdb -merge is broken! This may explain all the postings about app-defaults and Xresourses not seeming to work. To get /etc/X11/Xsession to merge Xresources correctly, I changed xrdb -merge <foo> to xrdb -cpp /usr/bin/cpp -merge <foo> everywhere. The problem seems to be related to the fact that /lib/cpp is a symbolic link to /usr/bin/cpp. I don't know why this should matter but it seems to. Is anyone else havingthis problem too? Try: xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources and see if you get a "Segmentation fault". If you do then you have the same problem I do and xrdb -cpp /usr/bin/cpp -merge /etc/X11/Xresources will probably work just fine. It would be nice if some people try this and post results to the list. --Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
