On 2014-06-02 18:33:30 +0100, Brian wrote: > Fair enough. Now, if only users were advised to use .Xdefaults-<hostname> > or .Xresources. Instead the choice is always .Xdefaults or .Xresources. > As I think we are agreed, one of these doesn't work. Ok, it can be made > to work; for example I've seen linking .Xresources and .Xdefaults as a > solution but have never quite grasped why .Xresource by itself is > unsatisfactory.
The drawback with .Xresources is that it is taken into account only at X startup time (or when the user runs xrdb). But I prefer another solution: I have set $XAPPLRESDIR and $XFILESEARCHPATH to $HOME/.app-defaults, copied /etc/X11/app-defaults to $HOME/.app-defaults, and now use that. The advantage (for me) is that the defaults from /etc/X11/app-defaults are no longer read, so that it is easier to change them (without root access). Overriding the defaults didn't always work because there are sometimes several ways to express the same thing. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140603020007.ga15...@xvii.vinc17.org
