Apparently, high profile hackers get bitten by this too. Michael Meeks' diary for today has this little comment in it:
* Up early, Owen explained .Xdefaults to me, apparently we set some X resources now so, we don't use the defaults at all; apparently using .Xresources instead is the right way to go. http://www.gnome.org/~michael/ On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 18:14, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, I wrote: > > > > [1] This is a change from previous RHL releases, where ~/.Xdefaults was > > > used. Is it documented anywhere? > > So the only remaining question is, why the change from .Xdefaults to > .Xresources and how are we supposed to know?
