[PATCH xrdb] ~/.Xdefaults is deprecated, ~/.Xresources should be used instead

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sun Jun 30 09:12:49 PDT 2013


On 06/29/13 04:49 PM, Stéphane Aulery wrote:
> Reported by John Feuerstein at
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649187
>
> Signed-off-by: Stéphane Aulery <lkppo at free.fr>
> ---
>   man/xrdb.man |    2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/man/xrdb.man b/man/xrdb.man
> index e30b0d5..7582712 100644
> --- a/man/xrdb.man
> +++ b/man/xrdb.man
> @@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ 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.
> +Generalizes \fI~/.Xresources\fP files.

I always thought this was trying to say that xrdb provided a general
replacement for .Xdefaults files, but it does seem confusing placed
in a section about the files actually used.   Rewording that to make
it more clear should help here - see following patch e-mail.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc


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