Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:19:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a ?crit : >> >> >> > Is your .Xresources file respected if you log in with xdm instead of >> > startx? >> >> I've just installed xdm and it seems that .Xresources >> is respected. Are you suspecting something? > > (Your mailer isn't very good with In-Reply-To: headers...)
My apologies. I can't expect anything from a poor webmailer I have to use sometimes. > Yes. You probably have a $HOME/.xinitrc that is telling startx to > completely ignore the system startup files, exactly as it's supposed to. > That's why .Xresources isn't being merged. man xinit. > > (.Xdefaults files are client-side application-defaults; they are not > loaded into the X server as X resources are.) > > Alternatively, your /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc may not be stock. I got it. I was mistaken since I thought .xinitrc and .xsession had to be the same file. I removed .xinitrc and everything works fine now. Thank you for your help and patience. Cheers, -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
