Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X resources contorl file

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

On Thursday 16 November 2006 04:37, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> Nagatoro <nagatoro@gmail.com> writes:
> > reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> >> Currently the .xresoruces file appears to be ignored.
> >
> > Try with a capital X (.Xresources).
>
> Haa.. there was a time and maybe different OS where case didn't
> matter so I never thought to try that.
>
> Even this time, I quickly tried it and saw no difference and was on
> the verge of posting back saying it didn't change anything but I
> pondered a moment and thought to try restarting X.  Sure enough, the
> lowercase was the problem.  On restarting X the data in .Xresources
> was recognized.
>
> I'd quit even using it mnths ago and am glad to have it
> back...Thanks.

In my experience you'll find that your kde and gnome apps will pretty 
much mostly ignore your .Xresources or at the very least what's in it 
gets overridden by kcontrol/gconf.

Your other X apps work just fine of course

alan
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