Any tutorial on the mysteries of .Xresources file?

Walter Dnes waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
Sat Nov 5 04:11:17 UTC 2005


On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 01:08:02PM -0500, Charles philip Chan wrote
> On  4 Nov 2005, jvetterli-zC6tqtfhjqE at public.gmane.org wrote:
> 
> > Some programs will try to read resources from a $HOME/.Xdefaults file.
> > Also, on my system at least, display reads its resources from
> > $HOME/.displayrc .
> 
> That is why my ~/.Xdefaults is symlinked to ~./Xresources. It makes
> things easier.

ln -s /home/waltdnes/.Xresources /home/waltdnes/.Xdefaults

...and "it woiks"!!!  Thanks for your help, guys.

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