$ echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE wayland$ echo $DESKTOP_SESSION gnome$ cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager /usr/sbin/gdm3
After taking a look at the reason why they dropped support for loading .Xresources by default (cf. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1225384), I decided to test whether that old reason is still valid. It is not: $ cat ~/.Xresources UXTerm*reverseVideo: true$ time xrdb -merge ~/.Xresourcesreal 0m0,018s user 0m0,012s sys 0m0,006s This time spent is clearly below what a human would need to type in "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources" manually and way below what a human is able to perceive. But complaining on this regression might belong to a different bug, I guess. Anyway, having said all that, what's the "official" way to have the uxterm default colors *automatically* white-on-black now?