[vox-tech] auto-load Xsources / Xdefaults at login

Troy Arnold troy-vox at zenux.net
Fri Sep 22 16:21:30 PDT 2006


On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 12:56:22PM -0700, Dylan Beaudette wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> recently noticed that i now have to manually load my .Xresources /
> .Xdefaults 
> everytime i restart X ....
> 
> xrdb -load .Xdefaults
> xrdb -load .Xresources
> 
> 
> i have put these lines into .bashrc and .bash_profile ... but without any 
> effect. any ideas on how to address this ?

The "normal" place for this, I think, would be ~/.xinitrc

You mentioned running kde... Placing a script in ~.kde/env/ should do the
trick.  That's how I start my ssh-agent on machines that default to a GUI
login.

-t



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