On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 11:38:12PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
>George Georgalis wrote:
>> On the first X system I moved (upgraded) from woody to sarge the
>> biggest glitch was entries in my .Xdefaults where not respected.
>> 
>> Today I installed sarge from scratch on another system and found
>> the same thing.  I don't expect this easy to track down. nor do I
>> want to build my own X server if I don't have to ;)
>> 
>> anybody care to guess what the problem is?
>
>% man X | grep -A 2 -B 4 \\.Xdefaults
>Reformatting X(7x), please wait...
>       XENVIRONMENT
>               Any  user-  and  machine-specific resources may be specified by
>               setting the XENVIRONMENT environment variable to the name of  a
>               resource  file to be loaded by all applications.  If this vari-
>               able is not defined, a file named $HOME/.Xdefaults-hostname  is
>               looked  for  instead,  where  hostname  is the name of the host
>               where the application is executing.

the ~/.Xdefaults-`hostname` solution works real well for me, I do
something like that anyway for various rc files in NFS.

man xrdb, and a the paragraphs above XENVIRONMENT, are
useful to see what's going on. but I'm now quite partial to
~/.Xdefaults-`hostname`

Thanks,
// George


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