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

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sun Jun 30 13:05:50 PDT 2013


On 06/30/13 12:29 PM, James Cloos wrote:
> I don’t see anything in libX11 which would agree that ~/.Xdefaults were deprecated.

It's been deprecated so many decades we don't even carry around any more
the notices of its deprecation.

     "The xrdb(1) program now provides the ability to define default resources
      that are available to all clients, making .Xdefaults files obsolete."

	- X11R2 Release Notes, March 1, 1988

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