Update:
It seems that xinitrc was fine, but simply not being run when my session
started. Logging out, explicitly setting my session type to Xfce in the
gdm screen, and logging in again got things working.
This guy apparently had the same problem:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2047486
This debian bug seems related:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483568
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xfce's xinitrc ignores ~/.config/xfce4/Xft.xrdb
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/231311
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** Summary changed:
- xfce ignores .config/xfce4/Xft.xrdb
+ xfce's xinitrc ignores ~/.config/xfce4/Xft.xrdb
** Description changed:
When logging into my fresh install of xubuntu 8.04 (hardy heron), xfce
fails to merge the contents of ~/.config/xfce4/Xft.xrdb into the xrdb
database. This i