Re: .Xdefaults ignored
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/12/17 Sandra Kachelmann s.kachelm...@googlemail.com: I recently noticed that xorg under FreeBSD ignores my ~/.Xdefaults file. I saw with truss that instead .Xdefaults-fqdn is being used: open(/home/skmn/.Xdefaults-prissy.local,O_RDONLY,06362252327) = 5 (0x5) No trace about ~/.Xdefaults Any idea why and if it can be changed? Sandra Does .Xdefaults-fqdn exist? If so, it read that instead, and that is the sensible behaviour; the name is more specific. Try renaming or deleting .Xdefaults-fqdn and see if it helps. Sorry, I should have mentioned before. As a consequence of xorg ignoring my .Xdefaults I've created .Xdefaults-fqdn and it's being used. That's not the problem. I'd like to change that behaviour though because pretty much all other Linux distros I've ever used before used .Xdefaults and most documentation you find about .Xdefaults entries point user to .Xdefaults in the homedir. Yeah I could create symlinks but I rather change it completely to .Xdefaults. I deploy a tarball with all my dotfiles on a Webserver and I don't want to rename .Xdefaults on every workstation I fetch the tarballs via script. I bet the search path of .Xdefaults is some sort of config option that can be changed somewhere. I tried searching in /usr/local/lib/X11, env startx, env xorg but no luck. Any idea where I can change it? Sandra ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: .Xdefaults ignored
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:43:04 +0100 Sandra Kachelmann s.kachelm...@googlemail.com wrote: I bet the search path of .Xdefaults is some sort of config option that can be changed somewhere. I tried searching in /usr/local/lib/X11, env startx, env xorg but no luck. Any idea where I can change it? Do you use .xinitrc? I have this in mine: if [ -f ~/.Xdefaults ] xrdb ~/.Xdefaults --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: .Xdefaults ignored
Sandra Kachelmann s.kachelm...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/12/17 Sandra Kachelmann s.kachelm...@googlemail.com: I recently noticed that xorg under FreeBSD ignores my ~/.Xdefaults file. I saw with truss that instead .Xdefaults-fqdn is being used: open(/home/skmn/.Xdefaults-prissy.local,O_RDONLY,06362252327) = 5 (0x5) No trace about ~/.Xdefaults Any idea why and if it can be changed? Sandra Does .Xdefaults-fqdn exist? If so, it read that instead, and that is the sensible behaviour; the name is more specific. Try renaming or deleting .Xdefaults-fqdn and see if it helps. Sorry, I should have mentioned before. As a consequence of xorg ignoring my .Xdefaults I've created .Xdefaults-fqdn and it's being used. That's not the problem. I'd like to change that behaviour though because pretty much all other Linux distros I've ever used before used .Xdefaults and most documentation you find about .Xdefaults entries point user to .Xdefaults in the homedir. Yeah I could create symlinks but I rather change it completely to .Xdefaults. I deploy a tarball with all my dotfiles on a Webserver and I don't want to rename .Xdefaults on every workstation I fetch the tarballs via script. I bet the search path of .Xdefaults is some sort of config option that can be changed somewhere. I tried searching in /usr/local/lib/X11, env startx, env xorg but no luck. Any idea where I can change it? Just set the path in $XENVIRONMENT. For example: export XENVIRONMENT=$HOME/.Xdefaults Emanuel ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: .Xdefaults ignored
2009/12/17 Sandra Kachelmann s.kachelm...@googlemail.com: I recently noticed that xorg under FreeBSD ignores my ~/.Xdefaults file. I saw with truss that instead .Xdefaults-fqdn is being used: open(/home/skmn/.Xdefaults-prissy.local,O_RDONLY,06362252327) = 5 (0x5) No trace about ~/.Xdefaults Any idea why and if it can be changed? Sandra Does .Xdefaults-fqdn exist? If so, it read that instead, and that is the sensible behaviour; the name is more specific. Try renaming or deleting .Xdefaults-fqdn and see if it helps. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list? ___ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
