[SOLVED] .Xdefaults is Empty!

TexT · 04-22-2015, 04:25 PM

I'm running Arch with i3. I'm trying to config xterm and realized that I didn't have a .Xdefaults file in my home directory. I saw in a forum that someone did

Code:

$ cd ~
$ touch ~.Xdefaults

I did that and it made a .Xdefaults file in my home folder but it is empty and I don't know what to do.

jkirchner · 04-22-2015, 08:51 PM

There is some great info right here in the Arch Linux Wiki about configuring xterm. There is some other good info on Xterm here. I used .Xresources to configure mine.

By the way, the touch command just creates an empty file with the filename you gave it so empty is what would be expected.

mister_b · 04-23-2015, 12:22 AM

Don't know if it's contraindicated, but I've had ~/.Xdefaults symlinked to ~/.Xresources for some time. At one time and possibly now, Openbox needed Xdefaults to run properly. In fact, it's still there in xinitrc:

Code:

openbox)
    exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session
    xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
    ;;