On Sat, 18 May 2002, Derek D. Martin wrote:

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=>At some point hitherto, Derek D. Martin hath spake thusly:
=>> 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.
=>
=>In thinking about this, I remember having a similar problem with KDE
=>when I breifly used it a few years ago.  KDE was ignoring all my
=>resources.  The culprate turned out to be that KDE, by default, wants
=>to make non-kde applications use similar settings to what you have
=>defined as your KDE theme.  There is (or was) a place in the KDE
=>configuration application where you could disable this behavior, and
=>then KDE would use your X resources.  
=>
=>I wonder if that's not the problem.  It may be that upgrading to KDE3
=>resets this value to the default of using KDE-like settings for
=>non-KDE applications.  I neither use KDE nor do I have either RH 7.3
=>or KDE3, so I can't (easily) investigate.
Way ahead of you. That setting only affects color. I suspect they 
implement by modifying the X*FILESEARCHPATH variables as used by the 
window manager. But I could be way off. 

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