On 2016-09-22, Dominic Knight <dominickni...@gmx.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2016-09-22 at 16:19 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> I've edited https://wiki.debian.org/LightDM and written >> https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession from scratch. I hope this helps >> other >> people who were as lost and confused as I was. >> >> If you're still wondering what kind of documentation I was looking >> for, >> you may use https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession as the answer. That's >> what I wanted to see. I will be able to point users to this page in >> the future. >> >> Thanks to all who provided information. > > There also used to be .Xresources to store information on fonts, > colours, window sizes and positions along with dpi, this I believe > was/is read by .Xsession. Unsure whether it is still used and/or > relevant?
Nicolas Georges gave some interesting information once when I said that .Xdefaults was "deprecated" concerning what is read by what where and why (went over my head, of course). Here it is: Well, I was gonna give the link but it's short enough to quote: (responding to my claim that .Xdefaults is deprecated) It is a bit more complicated than that. ~/.Xresources is loaded into the resources database of the X11 server by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources. The resource database is a property of the root window, you can observe it roughly with "xprop -root", see the RESOURCE_MANAGER entry; "xrdb -query" is the dedicated tool to observe it. ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-$HOSTNAME are read by the X11 libraries directly. It makes a big difference for remote applications, since they will see the .Xresources from the server but the .Xdefaults from the client. -- “It is enough that the arrows fit exactly in the wounds that they have made.” Franz Kafka
