I've just run into this too, after trying to hook the Solarized colour
scheme Xresources https://github.com/altercation/solarized/blob/master
/xresources-colors-solarized/Xresources into my ~/.Xresources file.
Because the file isn't being processed by the C preprocessor any more
the preprocessor symbols don't get expanded and, in my case, urxvt
(rxvt-unicode) substitutes bright pink for the colours it can't make
sense of.
It's a bit misleading, because a first look around would suggest that
the resources are loaded by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources
and there the -nocpp option isn't used. It's only when you dig a bit
deeper that you spot the the resources are actually loaded in
/etc/gdm/Xsession with the -nocpp option. Further, where
/etc/gdm/Xsession does run through the scripts in /etc/X11/Xsession.d,
it doesn't set up the environment completely. The fix to bug #398300
added some of the required environment variables (around lines 290 to
294) but didn't finish the job by setting up everything that
/etc/X11/Xsession would do.
The workaround that I posted in bug #398300 still works for this bug:
Create a ~/.xprofile that contains the following:
SYSRESOURCES=/etc/X11/Xresources
USRRESOURCES=$HOME/.Xresources
and the 30x11-common_xresources script should work as intended. It seems
a bit redundant as it duplicates behaviour from the /etc/gdm/Xsession
script - xrdb is being run more times than really is necessary. But it
works for me.
Of course, I don't expect this to get fixed. The next release will
replace gdm with LightDM so we'll have a new session setup script to
debug.
** Changed in: gdm (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Confirmed
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In 11.04 ~/.Xresources fails to load correctly after login from gdm
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