xterm Colors

sahko · 09-27-2008, 06:44 PM

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is just a symlink to xinitrc.kde . As i dont use KDE, i dont have that file & using an .Xresources instead of an .Xdefaults doesnt work.

duryodhan · 09-28-2008, 12:22 AM

I didn't really understand what you said .. but I am using fluxbox .. and the symlink is to xinitrc.fluxbox ...

and ~/.Xresources does work

sahko · 09-28-2008, 07:29 AM

Code:

ll /etc/X11/xinit    
total 4.0K
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 321 2003-03-16 23:36 README.Xmodmap
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  11 2008-09-12 06:08 xinitrc -> xinitrc.kde

.Xresources doesnt work this way

duryodhan · 09-28-2008, 03:13 PM

Can you try doing a "xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources"

I can't see any reason for ~/.Xresources not to work... afaik it is independent of WM

keefaz · 09-28-2008, 03:53 PM

Man X shows:

Code:

XENVIRONMENT
               Any  user-  and  machine-specific resources may be specified by
               setting the XENVIRONMENT environment variable to the name of  a
               resource  file to be loaded by all applications.  If this vari-
               able is not defined, a file named $HOME/.Xdefaults-hostname  is
               looked  for  instead,  where  hostname  is the name of the host
               where the application is executing.

XENVIRONMENT
              This must point to a file containing X resources. The default is
              $HOME/.Xdefaults-<hostname>.  Unlike /usr/lib/X11/Xresources, it
              is consulted each time an X application starts.

So I would think that .Xresources files are like .bash_profile and .Xdefaults are like .bashrc

allend · 09-29-2008, 04:51 AM

This is what I do to get the colours in the output from ls when run in a bash shell, based on a suggestion from rworkman in an old post that I haven't been able to find.
Create a .bashrc file in your home directory and add this line

Quote:

. /etc/profile.d/coreutils-dircolors.sh

sahko · 09-29-2008, 07:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by duryodhan

Can you try doing a "xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources"

I can't see any reason for ~/.Xresources not to work... afaik it is independent of WM

It works but i have to merge everytime. .Xdefaults work out of the box