Re: .Xdefaults and Mozilla menu bar configuration
>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier
<monnier+gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta/news/(a)rum.cs.yale.edu> writes:
zhu> Another problem is why I need to apply "xrdb ..." every time
zhu> when I restart the Linux system? Do I miss something?
> The modern name for that ~/.Xdefaults is ~/.Xresources.
Stefan> Huh? It has nothing to do with modernity AFAIK. They're
Stefan> just two different files with different semantics
Stefan> (.Xdefaults is read by X clients, whereas .Xresources is
Stefan> passed to the X server via xrdb).
Different semantics, yes, but I've been asked on three separate
occasions by three separate X maintainers from two different
organizations to eliminate references to .Xdefaults from XEmacs
documentation.
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