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Re: .Xdefaults and .Xresources ...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wierdl Mate)
Sun Oct 20 15:04:00 1996

To: Julien Maillard <maillard@tulipe.val.org>, redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 20 Oct 1996 08:38:12 EDT."
             <199610201238.IAA09421@tulipe.val.org> 
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 12:17:25 -0500
From: Wierdl Mate <matyi@wierdlmpc.msci.memphis.edu>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com

> > I find it much cleaner to use  and separate each
> > applocation's resources into individual files. Using .Xdefaults, I feel
> 
> if I set
> export XUSERFILESEARCHPATH=$HOME/.X11-app-defaults
> 
> will this overwrites the default location under X11/lib, or will X apps still read their defaults there, and then in $HOME/.X11-app-defaults. The X man page wasn't clear (to me...) on this.
> Thanks.

No it will not. This is an info from X User Tools from O'reilly. There
is a good diagram on page 437 about the whole resource merging
process.

Mate


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