Re: Xterm : Annoyance with a solution
"The Rev. Shamim, D.D., LFHCfS" <[email protected]>
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Steve <beforewisdom-/[email protected]> writes about X11 resource files for xterm: > ! place this in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm The right place to put these is in your home directory: ~/.Xresources is the standard name. When you start X up, incorporate the file into the database: xrdb -load ~/.Xresources Typically you'd put this in either your .xinitrc or .xsession, depending on whether you use xinit or log in via xdm. (Assuming you're not using a desktop like KDE or Gnome -- but if you were doing that, why use xterms and resource files?) Putting them in the system-wide app-defaults file is not only bad form, it is incorrect. The app-defaults files have different semantics from resource files. The best documentation for X11 from a user's point of view is the O'Reilly X11 series -- Volume 3, "The X Window System Users' Guide." http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/v3/ If you want to read manpages, the place to look is X(7x), not xterm(1). On linux, "man X" is all it takes. It explains not just resources, but also the standardised options that all X11 programs have, as well as how fonts, colours, cut/paste etc. are specified. -s