Xdefaults - antique

Mike A. Harris mharris at redhat.com
Mon Oct 20 09:07:27 UTC 2003


On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Harry Putnam wrote:

>Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 03:56:22 -0500
>From: Harry Putnam <reader at newsguy.com>
>To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
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>List-Id: For testers of Red Hat Linux beta releases
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>Subject: Xdefaults - antique
>
>The .Xdefaults file I've carting around for years seems to have no
>effect.  Can it still be made to work?

.Xdefaults was replaced by .Xresources in XFree86 4.0, however 
Red Hat Linux kept backward compatibility for a couple of OS 
releases and honoured the .Xdefaults temporarily.  Move your 
changes to .Xresources preferably.

Hope this helps.


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Mike A. Harris     ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat





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