-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly: > > > It is unacceptable to have to do an xrdb -load on a resource file at startup. > > It may be unacceptable, but I've been doing this for years. It's the > only way I can guarantee that I'll get *my* resources in a > heterogeneous environment!
No, it isn't, barring bugs. The "correct" way to do this is to save your resources in .Xdefaults if you use startx to start your X session, and .Xresources if your system uses a display manager. If you have the possibility of using both, you should probably provide a symlink from one to the other. The startx script and the display manager start-up scripts both use xrdb to load resources from one of these files. At least, xdm and gdm do; I'm not familiar with KDE, but it *should* do this also. However, while Steven's having added this to the startkde script may fix his problem, I'll note that the startkde script does not use xrdb to load resources on RH 7.1 or RH 7.2 either. So while something is clearly broken, I don't think that's the "correct" fix for it. [The word "correct" is in quotes above because, as is usually the case on Unix systems, there are many ways to achieve the desired result. For an individual user, the correct one is usually the way that user is most comfortable doing things. Used above, it means something like, "the way things are expected to work based on convention, or documented to work; and/or the way the developers intended it to work, as shipped by them.] - -- Derek Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - --------------------------------------------- I prefer mail encrypted with PGP/GPG! GnuPG Key ID: 0x81CFE75D Retrieve my public key at http://pgp.mit.edu Learn more about it at http://www.gnupg.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE85n44djdlQoHP510RAgInAKCsBlgqeLOqNA0JHSGnywbllokuswCfaP18 +cf8iQWYHXNjfGQQ1h8JCkQ= =Q/Ih -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
