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Re: gnome-settings-daemon and X resources (linux 9.4)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 14 13:04:04 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 13:03:17 -0400
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On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 18:46 -0400, Ken Raeburn wrote:
> Is there a way to stop gnome-settings-daemon from loading up a pile of
> widget and application (Editres, Emacs, Xfi) X resources and causing
> emacs to not use the color settings I want?
After some googling and poking at the source code, here is my best
understanding of a minimal workaround:
* For each *.ad file in /usr/athena/share/control-center-2.0/xrdb
which is not "General.ad", create an empty file in ~/.gnome2/xrdb with
the same name.
* For some reason, gnome-settings-daemon does not allow General.ad to
be overridden in this way. General.ad defines only the resources
"*background" and "*foreground"; add your own wildcard background and
foreground resources to ~/.Xresources to override them.
(gnome-settings-daemon reads your ~/.Xresources file after processing
its own resource settings, so the ~/.Xresources file wins when there are
conflicts.)
> ... but is gnome-settings-daemon going to get fired up randomly by
> some Gnome application I might run, and trash my resources then?
No, gnome-settings-daemon is not invoked automatically as far as I know.
So you may be happier with your workaround, as long as you don't expect
GNOME keyboard, font, or sound settings to be in full effect.
