.Xdefaults not being read after i reboot.

[Chris G]

On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 12:42:39PM +0100, Jamie Griffin wrote:
> hello everyone
> 
> I'm using Jaunty with the gnome desktop. I prefer to use xterm rather than the gnome terminal and have created an .Xdefaults configuration file in my home directory to customise it. However, each time i start up my laptop (either reboot or starting up for the first time that morning) and open xterm this file is not read and the xterm opens with the system-wide default settings, and to change this i have to use the command `xrdb .Xdefaults` to get an xterm session using my preferred settings. After doing so, the xterm stays as i want it to for the remaining time logged in to my pc. 
> 
> I'm not sure why this is happening and how to make xterm use the config file in my home directory and wondered if anyone else knows how?
> 
It happens because none of the 'modern' distributions uses a standard
X startup, thus .Xdefaults doesn't get fed into xrdb.  Similarly any
.xinitirc file you might have is ignored.

I think you *may* find that .Xresources does get fed through xrdb
automatically, I still have some setup in .Xresources that seems to be
effective and I don't think I have done anything special to get it to
work. 

I use xfce and that does have a mechanism for running things at X
startup (although it's still non-standard), I have hooked a script of
my own into that and that's how I get other things to run at startup.  

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Chris Green