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smurfd

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Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 8

gnome settings daemon and .Xdefaults?!

Hey,

So, apparently, if you are using gnome-settings-daemon, it overrides your .Xdefaults file.

Is there some way to either set the same things when using gnome-settings-daemon (ie xterm fonts and looks etc)
or is there some way to override the overriding of .Xdefaults?

/smurfd

mcubed

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From: Portland, OR USA

Registered: 2006-04-02

Posts: 18

Re: gnome settings daemon and .Xdefaults?!

.Xresources, instead of .Xdefaults?

I know that on Debian, when I switched back to GNOME (from Openbox), my settings for urxvt were preserved and utilized.  I had them in ~/.Xresources rather than ~/.Xdefaults.  I haven't tried this on Arch yet, so I can't say for sure it works.

It's all terribly confusing, the way xorg interacts with some DE's -- trying to find the magic combination of instructions you have to put together to get things setup the way you want without this or that overriding that or this.

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smurfd

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Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 8

Re: gnome settings daemon and .Xdefaults?!

Excellent, will try this when i get home.

I googled some, and yes, it appears to be like you say, to use .Xresources instead of .Xdefaults (Xresources is apparently "newer" than Xdefaults)

*keeps fingers crossed*