Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelm...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Chris Rees <utis...@googlemail.com> > wrote: > > 2009/12/17 Sandra Kachelmann <s.kachelm...@googlemail.com>: > >> I recently noticed that xorg under FreeBSD ignores my ~/.Xdefaults > >> file. I saw with truss that instead .Xdefaults-fqdn is being used: > >> > >> open("/home/skmn/.Xdefaults-prissy.local",O_RDONLY,06362252327) = > >> 5 (0x5) > >> > >> No trace about ~/.Xdefaults > >> > >> Any idea why and if it can be changed? > >> > >> Sandra > > > > Does .Xdefaults-fqdn exist? If so, it read that instead, and that is > > the sensible behaviour; the name is more specific. Try renaming or > > deleting .Xdefaults-fqdn and see if it helps. > > Sorry, I should have mentioned before. As a consequence of xorg > ignoring my .Xdefaults I've created .Xdefaults-fqdn and it's being > used. That's not the problem. I'd like to change that behaviour though > because pretty much all other Linux distros I've ever used before used > .Xdefaults and most documentation you find about .Xdefaults entries > point user to .Xdefaults in the homedir. Yeah I could create symlinks > but I rather change it completely to .Xdefaults. I deploy a tarball > with all my dotfiles on a Webserver and I don't want to rename > .Xdefaults on every workstation I fetch the tarballs via script. > > I bet the search path of .Xdefaults is some sort of config option that > can be changed somewhere. I tried searching in /usr/local/lib/X11, env > startx, env xorg but no luck. > > Any idea where I can change it?
Just set the path in $XENVIRONMENT. For example: export XENVIRONMENT="$HOME/.Xdefaults" Emanuel _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"