Re: How to proerly use xrdb on osx 10.6.8 snowleopard
Re: How to proerly use xrdb on osx 10.6.8 snowleopard
- Subject: Re: How to proerly use xrdb on osx 10.6.8 snowleopard
- From: Brandon Allbery <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:40:04 -0400
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 4:31 PM, rmiles
<email@hidden> wrote:
I am haveing problems with xrdg. I have it in .bash_profile as
xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults &
but this seems to cause problems in Terminal.app
Is this the proper place to but it?
That's not even the right place to put it on Linux, much less OS X.
On Linux you want ~/.xinitrc for sessions started with "startx" or "xinit", or ~/.xsession for "legacy" display manager sessions. If you use something like Gnome or KDE, their session manager should already be doing "xrdb" for you; if not, you would need to add the invocation to the session's startup programs.
On OS X, you would want to create ~/.xinitrc.d and then create a script in there to load it, named something like 40-xrdb.sh. But it should be happening for you already, I think.
EXCEPT:
.Xdefaults has not been used since X11R4. On both Linux and OS X this file should be named .Xresources, not .Xdefaults; this is likely why you aren't seeing it be used automatically. If for some strange reason you need X11R4 backward compatibility, you might symlink it back to .Xdefaults.
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