Luca Sardelli wrote:
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My question is: what about all the lines in the original .xinitrc file
created by the Apple-X11 installer?
You can just forget all of this, with the possible exception of 2 lines,
see the end of this message.
----- lines in Apple-X11 .xinitrc file ------
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
The file ~/.Xresources may contain your personal configuration for
applications running under X11, like the following for the configuration
of xfig:
Fig.browser: open %f
It is equivalent to (and overrides the contents of) the files contained
in /etc/X11/app-defaults and /sw/etc/app-defaults. Many people use this
to configure the default behavior of their xterm and [x]emacs, for example.
In the file ~/.Xmodmap you can have your own modification of the X keymap.
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
These two file do not exist, in general, so anything relating to them is
superfluous. If they existed, they would do the same on the system level
as your personal ones in your home directory.
# merge in defaults and keymaps
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
if [ -f $userresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $userresources
fi
if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
xmodmap $usermodmap
fi
Instead of all this stuff, put
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
there if you have this file, and
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
if you have this one. If you don't have either, don't put anything.
--
Martin
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