On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 04:31:07PM +0100, Ross Burton said: > On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:09, Walt Reed wrote: > > OK, seems that this fixed the default background colors, but something > > is overriding other settings. In addition to the background colors, > > something is messing with the vt100 colors and it's NOT in > > /usr/share/control-center-2.0/xrdb/*.ad > > As the person who wrote the code in g-c-c, I can state that it only uses > ~/.gnome2/xrdb and /usr/share/control-center-2.0/xrdb, and then sources > .Xresources.
Um, yeah. So something ELSE is doing it, and I can't tell what. That's the problem. This is the basis for my objection to ANY application that modifies xresources for other applications. If they don't make the changes it in the standard locations for those defaults (/etc/X11/app-defaults or the more standard location of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults which is a symlink in debian,) tracking them down is VERY VERY hard. What am I supposed to do - trace the syscalls for everything that gets launched when I start X to find the offending app? Being unable to set (or rely on) system-wide defaults Sucks.
