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| author | Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> | 2013-06-30 09:11:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com> | 2013-06-30 09:11:12 -0700 |
| commit | ed086df97fc816dfeb792ac0094eaa8795177bf5 (patch) | |
| tree | 1957f4ce8d1bb11f7d184282bbfa5791df022e11 /man | |
| parent | 420347005ccf1886dfbb2eb2902beafdcf4e2477 (diff) | |
Clarify .Xresources vs. .Xdefaults in man page
Reported by John Feuerstein at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=649187
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/xrdb.man | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
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 |