Re: do we really need xrdb?



On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 13:16 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> I've just sent a patch
> (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2005-October/msg00024.html)
> for using -nocpp where possible.

Cool, that will help.

> I was also trying to run the other xrdb command (which reads
> ~/.Xresources and all other appropriate files) in a 10/15 seconds
> timeout, but since you say we need to run it before any motif app is
> started (which can be started as part of the session, so we need to run
> xrdb ASAP).

As was said, just running it between the core desktop and the user tasks
would be best, but that isn't possible with the current session manager
as I understand it.

> Anyway, gdm already runs xrdb with the user's .Xresources and other
> system-wide files, from what I have seen. So, maybe we don't need that
> other xrdb command?

gdm doesn't generate defines from the GTK+ theme and read the .ad files
in /etc/gnome/config and ~/.gnome2/xrdb, it only loads ~/.Xresources and
the static files in /etc/X11/.

Ross
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