Bug 1401310

Summary:	X resources not re-read after logout
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	David Levine <levinedl>
Component:	xorg-x11-xinit	Assignee:	X/OpenGL Maintenance List <xgl-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	25	CC:	hdegoede, levinedl, negativo17, xgl-maint
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Description David Levine 2016-12-04 15:26:10 UTC

Description of problem:
X resources disappear after logout.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-xinit-1.3.4-12.fc25.x86_64
I'm not sure if this is the proper component to report this issue.

How reproducible:

Steps to Reproduce:
1. log in
2. log out
3. log in
4. run xrdb

Actual results:
$ xrdb -q

Xft.antialias:  1
Xft.hintstyle:  hintfull
Xft.rgba:       none
Xcursor.theme:
Xcursor.size:   0
Xcursor.theme_core:     1

Expected results:
I expect to see, in the output of xrdb -q, all of the resources that are in my ~/.Xresources.  I do see all of them after logging in the first time (after booting).  But they have disappeared by the second login.

Additional info:

Comment 1 David Levine 2016-12-04 15:29:10 UTC

This problem first appeared for me in Fedora 25.  I updated all packages today, and the problem is still here.

Comment 2 David Levine 2016-12-07 16:47:01 UTC

This really should be medium Severity (and medium priority), but I can't seem to edit those fields.

Comment 3 Hans de Goede 2016-12-14 12:44:12 UTC

Hi,

What desktop environment are you using and how are you logging in ? The xinitrc scripts do not care if this is your first login or not, so I think the problem lies somewhere else.

Are you perhaps using GNOME on wayland ?

Regards,

Hans

Comment 4 David Levine 2016-12-14 19:33:43 UTC

I wouldn't be surprised if the problem is elsewhere, but I didn't think of a better place to start.

I'm running xfce and the default graphical login.

Thank you!

David

Comment 5 Hans de Goede 2016-12-15 13:33:09 UTC

Hi,

(In reply to David Levine from comment #4)
> I wouldn't be surprised if the problem is elsewhere, but I didn't think of a
> better place to start.
> 
> I'm running xfce and the default graphical login.

I think this is likely a bug with the graphical login manager, if you're using the XFCE spin then you're likely using lightdm. Try doing "rpm -q lightdm" if that gives output other then "package lightdm is not installed"
then you're indeed using lightdm.

You may want to try gdm instead (to pin things down to lightdm), do:

sudo dnf install gdm
sudo systemctl disable lightdm.service
sudo systemctl enable gdm.service
reboot

And see if that fixes things, to go back to lightdm, swap the enable / disable and (optionally) do:
sudo dnf remove gdm

Regards,

Hans

Comment 6 David Levine 2016-12-15 14:23:56 UTC

Yes, I was using lightdm, and gdm does indeed fix the issue.  I will file a bug against lightdm.

Thank you!

David