Reported by John Feuerstein at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649187
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> --- man/xrdb.man | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man/xrdb.man b/man/xrdb.man index e30b0d5..bdef86f 100644 --- a/man/xrdb.man +++ b/man/xrdb.man @@ -286,7 +286,11 @@ This option is passed through to the preprocessor and is used to specify a directory to search for files that are referenced with .I #include. .SH FILES -Generalizes \fI~/.Xdefaults\fP files. +.I Xrdb +does not load any files on its own, but many desktop environments use +xrdb to load \fI~/.Xresources\fP files on session startup to initialize +the resource database, as a generalized replacement for \fI~/.Xdefaults\fP +files. .SH "SEE ALSO" X(__miscmansuffix__), appres(__appmansuffix__), listres(__appmansuffix__), Xlib Resource Manager documentation, Xt resource documentation -- 1.7.9.2 _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
