From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 2 07:26:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA04422 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 07:26:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA04414 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 07:26:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul5.u.washington.edu (root@saul5.u.washington.edu [140.142.83.3]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id HAA17794; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 07:26:16 -0700 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul5.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id HAA15955; Fri, 2 Oct 1998 07:26:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 07:26:06 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: "Alain G. Fabry" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Xresources or Xdefaults In-Reply-To: <136701bdee0a$47a19f60$5531d5c6@earth.coserve.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Alain G. Fabry wrote: >What's the difference between ~/.Xresources and ~/.Xdefaults? >Why would one prefer using one from the other? >Thanks, > >Alain There is not a difference really. I believe the two files are discussed in 'man X'. When you start your X session you will have a line in the .xsession (or equivalent) that says "xrdb -merge .Xresources". This could just as easily say "xrdb -merge .Xdefaults". There is a notable exception. Rxvt (terminal emulator if you didnt know) doesn't read X resources in the same way that most other X apps do. Rxvt requires it's settings to be maintained in the .X defaults file. Rxvt reads this file directly instead of querying the resource database. Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ | 206-633-5994 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message