[PATCH:xrdb] Clarify .Xresources vs. .Xdefaults in man page

Matt Dew marcoz at osource.org
Tue Jul 16 10:56:57 PDT 2013


Ah, documentation improvements. I'm a fan.
If not too late,

Reviewed-By: Matt Dew <marcoz at osource.org>


On 06/30/2013 10:14 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Reported by John Feuerstein at
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649187
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com>
> ---
>   man/xrdb.man |    6 +++++-
>   1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/man/xrdb.man b/man/xrdb.man
> index e30b0d5..bdef86f 100644
> --- a/man/xrdb.man
> +++ b/man/xrdb.man
> @@ -286,7 +286,11 @@ This option is passed through to the preprocessor and is used to specify
>   a directory to search for files that are referenced with
>   .I #include.
>   .SH FILES
> -Generalizes \fI~/.Xdefaults\fP files.
> +.I Xrdb
> +does not load any files on its own, but many desktop environments use
> +xrdb to load \fI~/.Xresources\fP files on session startup to initialize
> +the resource database, as a generalized replacement for \fI~/.Xdefaults\fP
> +files.
>   .SH "SEE ALSO"
>   X(__miscmansuffix__), appres(__appmansuffix__), listres(__appmansuffix__),
>   Xlib Resource Manager documentation, Xt resource documentation
>


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