Leon Fischer <lfisc...@airmail.cc> writes: > If you run xrdb(1) then ~/.Xdefaults won't be evaluated.
Well that's interesting and good to know, thanks! That doesn't seem obvious from looking at mentions of "Xdefaults" in either the X(7) or xrdb(1) man pages, unless it's implied in this from xdrb(1): Xrdb does not load any files on its own, but many desktop environments use xrdb to load ~/.Xresources files on session startup to initialize the resource database, as a generalized replacement for ~/.Xdefaults ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Allan