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Hi all. First post on this forum, but many more on italian community one. Sorry for my poor english.
I use no DE and 'til now I used ~/.Xdefaults to set my cursor's theme. I would switch to xrdb, so I deleted .Xdefaults and created ~/.Xresources filled with the exactly same .Xdefaults lines, restarted X, then loaded settings with
xrdb ~/.Xresources
query output is correct
xrdb -query
Xcursor.theme: Dart3D_LHPPL
Xcursor.size: 32
but no cursor theme is loaded. I already tried with Xcursor*theme but nothing changed. I want to specify that the same settings and syntax work perfectly in .Xdefaults, so no theme/directory issue.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by 4javier (2010-12-01 20:12:48)
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it passes the settings to applications when they start, so you need to add it to xinitrc before stuff is started
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I'm a dumb. You're right, thanks a lot. But this changes the usefulness of xrdb...if I wanna apply some changes pratically I have to restart X like I did with .Xdefaults...
Thanks again
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the .Xdefaults settings also won't be applied until you restart the application (it has to reread the file), so it works the same way
Last edited by thestinger (2010-12-01 19:53:26)
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Yes I know, I thought that one of the advantage using xrdb, was that the changes sould be recognized by applications with no need to reboot them. I was wrong.
The difference instead is that the changes in .Xdefaults need Xserver's reboot to take effect, ones made by xrdb need just the application interested to reboot.
Bye
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Yes I know, I thought that one of the advantage using xrdb, was that the changes sould be recognized by applications with no need to reboot them. I was wrong.
The difference instead is that the changes in .Xdefaults need Xserver's reboot to take effect, ones made by xrdb need just the application interested to reboot.Bye
Really? I thought it depends on the application. Like if you want to change X settings, you must restart X, if you want to change the settings of an app, restart the app. Is this not how it works?
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Not with classical use of .Xdefaults, that's loaded automatically every time X start. So if you wanna the changes been applied you must restart X. I f you use xrdb just the application involved must be restarted. Obviously you can also pass .Xdefaults as input of xrdb, with no need to restart X.
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