Thanks to Stephen J. Turnbull and Glynn Clements.
The problem was solved by creating .Xresources and applying
xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
Zhu Wang
Southern Methodist University
On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 19:38, Glynn Clements wrote:
zhu wang wrote:
> Thanks to Glynn Clements and Giacomo Boffi.
> Yes, what I need is
> xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
>
> Another problem is why I need to apply "xrdb ..." every time when I
> restart the Linux system? Do I miss something?
The "X resources db" is generated by merging multiple sources. One of
these sources is *either* the data which is stored in the X server by
xrdb *or* the contents of ~/.Xdefaults.
The ~/.Xdefaults file is only used if no data has been stored by xrdb.
It's common for startx, xdm etc to be configured so that if the file
~/.Xresources exists, it is passed to xrdb. In this case, ~/.Xdefaults
won't be used.
For more information on X resources, see Q20 in the
comp.windows.x.intrinics FAQ:
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/Xt-FAQ/section-21.html --
zhu wang <zhuw(a)mail.smu.edu>