Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 68257
xinitrc package nullifies ~/.Xdefaults
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:43:58 EDT
Description of Problem: Recent xinitrc package is shipping /etc/X11/Xresources which sets some Xft variables. Unfortunately, after using 'xrdb' to load this file, the settings in ~/.Xdefaults will be ignored. ~/.Xdefaults may be oldish, but I am using it for years and I like some of its features (e.g. using ~/.Xdefaults-<hostname> for host-dependent settings, changed settings will be used without calling an extra program). First tries have shown that a simple renaming to ~/.Xresources has unwanted sideeffects (some keys do not work anymore) so I would like to keep the good old ~/.Xdefaults. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xinitrc-3.24-1 Steps to Reproduce: 1. use ~/.Xdefaults to setup your system; a sample may be | echo 'xterm*background: lightyellow' > ~/.Xdefaults 2. install recent xinitrc package 3. (re)start X 4. start xterm Actual Results: xterm background is not lightyellow Expected Results: xterm background is lightyellow
About all we can do here (for the future) is add ~/.Xresources-hostname support, which is pretty trivial.
Marking various no-need-to-be-private bugs public.
Xdefaults is 3 years obsolete. It is obsoleted by XFree86.org and possibly by X.org prior to that (I don't know the history of the changes). It was kept in Red Hat Linux for a while longer. It's no longer available for use, so users should use Xresources and .Xresources instead. Please make any enhancement requests regarding these files to xfree86@XFree86.org directly. If there is a need for some enhancement, it isn't going to be limited to Red Hat Linux. Closing NOTABUG.