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

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 06/30/13 01:22 PM, James Cloos wrote:
>>>>>> "AC" == Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> writes:
>
> JC>> I don’t see anything in libX11 which would agree that ~/.Xdefaults were deprecated.
>
> AC> It's been deprecated so many decades we don't even carry around any more
> AC> the notices of its deprecation.
>
> I can't be deprecated if libX11 only loads ~/.Xdefaults and ~/.Xdefaults-$host.

Why not?   The replacement is reading the resources out of the root window
properties that xrdb writes them to, not reading a file off local disk.

The old support was left for backwards compatibility - I doubt they expected it
to last 25 years, but no one has felt a need to go back in and rip it out.

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