SOLVED: Problem with X resources on upgrade to RH-7.3/KDE-3.0.0-5

[James Richard Tyrer]

"Steven W. Orr" wrote:
> 
> I am not running KDM or xdm. I have always gotten in via startx after
> logging in on a text console.
> 
Then it is the same only different.

When you run: "startx": "xinit" runs the script: "xinitrc" which
contains basically the same thing (from the XFree86 stock script):

----------------------------------------------------------------

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f $userresources ]; then
    xrdb -merge $userresources
fi

if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $usermodmap
fi

----------------------------------------------------------------

This is the script that should read your: "~/.Xresources" file.

Note the two lines:

sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

This may be an error: ".Xresources" & ".Xmodmap", if your global file
names, or links, do not start with ".".

--
JRT
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