Weblog entry #16 for lters

xterm defaults
Posted by lters on Mon 15 Dec 2008 at 14:43
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Trying to update my xterm settings and realized that .Xdefaults and .Xresources did not make an difference
until I ran
xrdb ~/.Xdefault 
or 
xrdb ~/.Xresources


After this xterm saw the changes.

Hope this saves someone else some grief!

 

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Posted by mcortese (213.70.xx.xx) on Mon 15 Dec 2008 at 16:51
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I think X resources are an example of poor design. You waste time and memory at every login to load resources for application you may not even run.

I wonder if there are still applications with no other means of configuration.

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