Subject: Re: emacs and .Xdefaults
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From: Sten Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 05 Dec 1997 12:17:43 +0100
In-Reply-To: Gilbert Laycock's message of 05 Dec 1997 10:43:07 +0000
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Gilbert Laycock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>>>> "Kirk" == Kirk Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Kirk> I just made a new installation of bo, and emacs no longer seems to
> Kirk> read my ~/.Xdefaults file like it used to in rex.
>
> Shouldn't it be called ~/.Xresources ?
Yes
> Personally I have the two filenames symbolic linked together, because
> some X installations I use seem to like one and some like the other.
>
> Debian seems to only use .Xresources.
>
Debians preferences can be revealed by reading the file
"/etc/X11/Xsession"
Here are the relevant parts:
##############
sysresources=/etc/X11/Xresources
usrresources=$HOME/.Xresources
##############
if [ -f $sysresources ]
then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
##############
if grep -q ^allow-user-resources /etc/X11/config
then
if [ -f $usrresources ]
then
xrdb -merge $usrresources
fi
fi
##############
> I have seen some installations of X that distinguish between the two
> names, along the lines of ~/.Xdefaults will completely override the
> system wide xrdb settings whereas ~/.Xresources will be merged with
> the system ones. (Or was it the other way around?)
This doesn't apply to Debian
- Sten Anderson
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