cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote: > > > > BTW, on many systems these days, .Xdefaults is deprecated and > > .Xresources is used instead. ymmv. > > Interesting. .Xdefaults still works on debian etch. Did you "deprecate" > it in what is it .. lenny? Is this documented anywhere?
This happened years ago, and I believe you can blame upstream for it, not FOSS. Nowadays, ~/.Xdefaults is often a symbolic link that points to ~/.Xresources. > > RXVTNEWSFONT='-*-*-medium-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1' > > alias news='rxvt +sb -fn "$RXVTNEWSFONT" -geometry 136x56+37+21 -e ... > > Why keep things clean and simple and use an X resources file when it's > a lot more fun making them messy & complicated, heh? I was talking of It is clean and simple, and I do use ~/.Xresources where I have a standard font defined that I want to use in terminals. slrn is an exception to the rule. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/emails.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
