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In article <1992Dec22.011556.6654@kronos.arc.nasa.gov>, doctor@kronos.arc.nasa.gov writes:
    Can anyone tell me why /usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession loads from
    ".Xresources" instead of ".Xdefaults" by default?

A couple of reasons: 1) It allows customers that want to control
whether or not the resources end up as an X server property or not to
either put their private resources into .Xresources or .Xdefaults
respectively.  2) That's the way that MIT distributes the configuration
and more folks complain when we don't follow the "standard"
distribution mechanisms.

    This is most annoying since the on-line documentation (i.e.,
    "xrdb(1)"

Hmmm. My reading of xrdb(1) is that ~/.Xdefaults is used as a backup
if the resources are not a property on the root window of the server.
This is exactly what is happening.

    or the Showcase "Customizing Your Environment" slide)?

Don't know about that one.

    P.S. I have, of course, edited Xsession to load from $HOME/.Xdefaults
    on all my systems...

That is certainly one of your choices. Personally, I've linked
.Xresources and .Xdefaults to be the same file.

PK
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