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Hi,

I am running Debian Etch on a Macbook, and I have a simple problem,
namely, that my $HOME/.Xresources file, which has a few colour options
for xterm, is not read at startup. I need to manually xrdb load it
each session. I tried a variety of options, including linking it to
the system Xdefaults, checking /etc/X11/Xsession.options for the
'allow-user-session' flag, and nything related in the kdmrc file. I
also tried putting a startup script in the .kde Autostart directory,
then finally put the xrdb command in a .xsession file, having it touch
a text-file. The latter did not happen either.

Any ideas?
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Xresources not read at startup

Submitted by Kumar R. on Wed, 2007-11-21 23:00.

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:52:29PM +0100, s. keeling wrote:
> Kumar Ravichandran :
> >
> > I am running Debian Etch on a Macbook, and I have a simple problem,
> > namely, that my $HOME/.Xresources file, which has a few colour options
> > for xterm, is not read at startup. I need to manually xrdb load it
>
> I have it in ~/.xinitrc
>
I tried that as well :(. No good!

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Xresources not read at startup

Submitted by Kelly Clowers on Wed, 2007-11-21 23:00.

On Nov 21, 2007 7:07 PM, Kumar Ravichandran
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:52:29PM +0100, s. keeling wrote:
> > Kumar Ravichandran :
> > >
> > > I am running Debian Etch on a Macbook, and I have a simple problem,
> > > namely, that my $HOME/.Xresources file, which has a few colour options
> > > for xterm, is not read at startup. I need to manually xrdb load it
> >
> > I have it in ~/.xinitrc
> >
> I tried that as well :(. No good!

I made .Xdefaults a symlink to .Xresources, and it started working.
Might be worth a try.

Cheers,
Kelly Clowers

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Xresources not read at startup

Submitted by Kumar R. on Sat, 2007-11-24 10:00.

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 07:39:26PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> On Nov 21, 2007 7:07 PM, Kumar Ravichandran
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 04:52:29PM +0100, s. keeling wrote:
> > > Kumar Ravichandran :
> > > >
> > > > I am running Debian Etch on a Macbook, and I have a simple problem,
> > > > namely, that my $HOME/.Xresources file, which has a few colour options
> > > > for xterm, is not read at startup. I need to manually xrdb load it
> > >
> > > I have it in ~/.xinitrc
> > >
> > I tried that as well :(. No good!
>
> I made .Xdefaults a symlink to .Xresources, and it started working.
> Might be worth a try.
>
>

I am sorry to reply so late, but this was the first thing I did. Since
nothing is working, I just load the file at startup via a kde-script.

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Kumar.

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Xresources not read at startup

Submitted by Michelle Konzack on Mon, 2007-12-03 09:04.

Am 2007-11-21 19:39:26, schrieb Kelly Clowers:
> I made .Xdefaults a symlink to .Xresources, and it started working.
> Might be worth a try.

Please note, that

~/.Xresources

are different from

~/.Xdefaults-
or
~/.Xdefaults

While the first one is read by the "xserver" from

/etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common

the later two are read by the application directly at every startup.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Tamay Dogan Network
Open Hardware Developer
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

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Xresources not read at startup

Submitted by Michelle Konzack on Mon, 2007-12-03 09:06.

Am 2007-11-21 00:43:39, schrieb Kumar Ravichandran:
> Hi,
>
> I am running Debian Etch on a Macbook, and I have a simple problem,
> namely, that my $HOME/.Xresources file, which has a few colour options

Why not put it into

$HOME/.Xdefaults-
or
$HOME/.Xdefaults

which are read by default troug the application?

----[ '~/devel/editres.strace' ]----------------------------------------

execve("/usr/bin/editres", ["editres"], [/* 78 vars */]) = 0

open("/home/michelle.konzack/.Xdefaults-michelle1.private", O_RDONLY) = 4
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

read(4, "\n. ~/.Xdefaults\n", 16) = 16

access("/home/michelle.konzack/.Xresources/de_DE.UTF8/Editres", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/home/michelle.konzack/.Xresources/de/Editres", R_OK) = 0
stat64("/home/michelle.konzack/.Xresources/de/Editres", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=671, ...}) = 0
open("/home/michelle.konzack/.Xresources/de/Editres", O_RDONLY) = 4

open("/home/michelle.konzack/.Xresources/de/Editres-real", O_RDONLY) = 4

open("/home/michelle.konzack/.Xresources/de/Editres-lang", O_RDONLY) = 4

access("/usr/lib/X11/de_DE.UTF8/app-defaults/Editres", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/lib/X11/de/app-defaults/Editres", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/Editres", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/X11/de_DE.UTF8/app-defaults/Editres", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/X11/de/app-defaults/Editres", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres", R_OK) = 0
stat64("/etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=10027, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/X11/app-defaults/Editres", O_RDONLY) = 4

open("/home/michelle.konzack/.icons/default/cursors/sb_v_double_arrow", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/michelle.konzack/.icons/default/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = 4

open("/usr/share/icons/default/cursors/sb_v_double_arrow", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/pixmaps/default/cursors/sb_v_double_arrow", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/icons/default/cursors/sb_v_double_arrow", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/michelle.konzack/.icons/crystalblue/cursors/sb_v_double_arrow", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/home/michelle.konzack/.icons/crystalblue/index.theme", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/share/icons/crystalblue/cursors/sb_v_double_arrow", O_RDONLY) = 4

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
Michelle Konzack
Tamay Dogan Network
Open Hardware Developer
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

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