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Re: .Xdefaults and .Xresources ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barrie Spence)
Sun Oct 20 07:25:15 1996
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:18:51 +0100
From: Barrie Spence <barrie@calvin.demon.co.uk>
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BORG wrote:
> As to the original question: I am absolutely sure
> that .Xdefaults is read not by X and not by fvwm,
> but it's read by applications directly, because, if
> you lack .Xdefaults, your apps will search for their
> defaults in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/. You can
> also customize your ~/.Xdefaults by looking at
> general app defaults in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/,
> copying them to your .Xdefaults and editing it then.
I find it much cleaner to use XUSERFILESEARCHPATH and separate each
applocation's resources into individual files. Using .Xdefaults, I feel
it is too easy to set a resource which unintentionally clobbers other
applications. Since most systems also load .Xdefaults using xrdb, it
makes it complicated to change the resources that way. With the separate
resource files, just start a new instance of the application to test
them...
Barrie
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