Re: xbase: the .Xdefaults issue

1999-01-16 Thread Mark W. Eichin
In terms of implemtnation, ~/.Xresources and ~/.Xdefaults are *unrelated*. They happen to have a similar syntax... If and only if there are no resources loaded on the server that $DISPLAY points to, a program will look in ~/.Xdefaults. Typically, ~/.Xresources is fed to xrdb and thus into the s

Re: xbase: the .Xdefaults issue

1999-01-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 11:10:35PM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > > "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ben> The XFree86 sources as shipped use ~/.Xresources as the > Ben> default place for user X resources. Every other Unix in the > Ben> world uses the file ~/.

Re: xbase: the .Xdefaults issue

1998-12-30 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Hamish" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> The XFree86 sources as shipped use ~/.Xresources as the Ben> default place for user X resources. Every other Unix in the Ben> world uses the file ~/.Xdefaults. I think we should support Ben> both by default, not just

Re: xbase: the .Xdefaults issue

1998-12-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 10:18:18AM -0800, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > The XFree86 sources as shipped use ~/.Xresources as the default > place for user X resources. Every other Unix in the world uses > the file ~/.Xdefaults. I think we should support both by > default, not just ~/.Xresources. Interesti

Re: xbase: the .Xdefaults issue

1998-12-28 Thread Ben Gertzfield
> "Branden" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Branden> Well, the startx.cpp that ships with the XFree86 sources Branden> sets userresources to ~/.Xresources. If those guys use Branden> ~/.Xdefaults, then they've changed it. Branden> This sounds like the kind of