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  .Xresources for xless Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2020-07-07 16:20 +0200
    Re: .Xresources for xless Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2020-07-07 16:30 +0200
      Re: .Xresources for xless Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2020-07-08 03:00 +0200
    Re: .Xresources for xless Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-07 21:30 +0200
    Re: .Xresources for xless Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2020-07-08 03:00 +0200

#224496 — .Xresources for xless

Running up-to-date Buster here, amd64:
Linux debian.localdomain 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 
4.19.98-1+deb10u1 (2020-04-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have moved to a display manager (wmd), so is my xrdb 
~/.Xresources line (xrdb ~/.Xresources) in .xinitrc being called 
into the loop, so to speak?

Or is there another location for that data that is more 
wmd-friendly?

Also, if someone could share an xless .Xresources line I would 
be very grateful. Is that /etc/X11/app-defaults/XLess file doing 
me any good?

Sorry to be all over the court here. I am an older um gentleman, 
and I am on a lot of medication right now, with only a little 
bit of that for psych issues!

Thank you.

-- 
  A test of right and wrong must be the means, one would
  think, of ascertaining what is right or wrong, and not a
  consequence of having already ascertained it.

                                   J. S. Mill

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#224498

On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:07:35AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Running up-to-date Buster here, amd64:
> Linux debian.localdomain 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.98-1+deb10u1
> (2020-04-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> I have moved to a display manager (wmd), so is my xrdb ~/.Xresources line
> (xrdb ~/.Xresources) in .xinitrc being called into the loop, so to speak?

You can use "xrdb -query" to find out.

In general, I would *not* expect ~/.xinitrc to be used by a display
manager login.  Even when you were presumably using startx, you were
supposed to have moved the ~/.xinitrc to ~/.xsession decades ago.

The ~/.xsession file is used by traditional display manager logins (xdm)
as well as by Debian's startx.

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#224555

On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:27:55AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:07:35AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> > Running up-to-date Buster here, amd64:
> > Linux debian.localdomain 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.98-1+deb10u1
> > (2020-04-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> > 
> > I have moved to a display manager (wmd), so is my xrdb ~/.Xresources line
> > (xrdb ~/.Xresources) in .xinitrc being called into the loop, so to speak?
> 
> You can use "xrdb -query" to find out.
> 
> In general, I would *not* expect ~/.xinitrc to be used by a display
> manager login.  Even when you were presumably using startx, you were
> supposed to have moved the ~/.xinitrc to ~/.xsession decades ago.
> 
> The ~/.xsession file is used by traditional display manager logins (xdm)
> as well as by Debian's startx.


Ahah!  Finally!  After 7 years of twisty little mazes, the _real_ reason his `.bashrc` would not load, was revealed to his tired and dungeon weary eyes.  He cracked out The One in a faint and final hope of Success At Last™©®, and before he knew what was happening...

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#224528

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On Ma, 07 iul 20, 10:07:35, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Running up-to-date Buster here, amd64:
> Linux debian.localdomain 4.19.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.98-1+deb10u1
> (2020-04-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> I have moved to a display manager (wmd), so is my xrdb ~/.Xresources line
> (xrdb ~/.Xresources) in .xinitrc being called into the loop, so to speak?

Your ~/.Xresources should be read automatically by Debian's X session, 
without any additional configuration.

If this is not the case please provide more information on your Window 
Manager / Desktop Environment and the full contents of ~/.xinitrc 
~/.xsession and ~/.xsessionrc (if they exist).

Kind regards,
Andrei
-- 
http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser

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#224556

On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 10:07:35AM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Sorry to be all over the court here. I am an older um gentleman, and I am on a

I take it an "um gentleman" means "übér mènsche" :)

That sounds rather awesome actually...


> -- 
>  A test of right and wrong must be the means, one would
>  think, of ascertaining what is right or wrong, and not a
>  consequence of having already ascertained it.
> 
>                                   J. S. Mill

Now that's gold!

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