From: acecoder@umiacs.umd.edu (Pierce Leonberger) Subject: Re: xrdb and .Xdefaults Date: 8 Feb 1993 15:11:43 GMT
In article <1ku07bINNbmk@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>, chris@McLane.physiology.rwth-achen.de (Christian Ziemann) writes:
|>
|> acecoder@umiacs.umd.edu (Pierce Leonberger) writes:
|>
|> >I'm having a little problem getting linux's xrdb to read my .Xdefaults
|> >file. I wanted my setup at home to much like that at work (SPARCStation) so
|> >I just copied my .Xdefaults file and have the following line in my .xinitrc
|> >file.
|>
|> >xrdb < $HOME/.Xdefaults
|>
|> >i've also tried it with the "-load" and "-merge" options instead of "<" and
|> >it just doesn't work! Basicly i'm just setting colors and other preferences.
|>
|> I had the same problem. If I remember correctly, xrdb uses cpp to preprocess
|> your database (strip comments, convert #define statements). On my system it
|> wouldn't find cpp where it expected it.
|>
|> I think I solved that one by creating a symlink from cpp (somewhere in the
|> gcc lib directory - sorry, my Linux box is at home and I don't remember the
|> exact pathname) to the directory where you find gcc (/bin or /usr/bin).
Exactly... Thanks to everyone who responded/emailed to my probelm..
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