.Xdefaults ignored?

[Thorsten Haude]

Hi,

* John Klingler wrote (2007-02-13 11:17):
>One thing the has annoyed me is there is no visible indication when 
>selecting a file, for example in the Load Tags dialog. The background is 
>gray. Perhaps it is highlighting with the background color.

Sounds like you use KDE. Look here:
    https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=111005&aid=1520165&group_id=11005


>I tried putting the following line in ~/.Xdefaults:
>
>nedit*FileSelect*selectColor: yellow
>
>This had no effect.

Google has hints that KDE has problem reading in ~/.Xdefaults. Try one
of the following:
- symlink ~/.Xdefaults to ~/.Xresources
- run 'xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults' at KDE startup.


>I tried putting it in ~/.nedit, also with no effect.

You shouldn't be putting things into ~/.nedit, it's overwritten every
time you save your preferences from within NEdit.


>Then I noticed nedit ignores whatever I put in ~/.Xdefaults or in
>~/.nedit.

Are you sure about the latter part?


>Since there is no app-defaults file I was wondering, is there a nedit 
>system file overriding my .Xdefaults or does nedit ignore the file 
>altogether?

NEdit is not supposed to do anything about ~/.Xdefaults. This file is
to be read by your X Window server at startup. NEdit then reads the
values from a in-memory database kept by the server.

If you want to experiment with resource settings in ~/.Xdefaults you
can use the following steps.
- Save your changes on ~/.Xdefaults
- Tell the X server to read in the changes: xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
- Restart NEdit

Alternatively, restart the server after your changes are saved.


Thorsten
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