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- From: gt0449a@prism.gatech.EDU (Rob Coleman)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
- Subject: Re: When Can I Change the Defaults of X?
- Message-ID: <81170@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 21:22:04 GMT
- References: <C17zLE.7yz@acsu.buffalo.edu>
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- >When I'm running X windows, can I basically change things in the file
- >.Xdefaults or change the defaults directly (font etc.) and have these
- >changes applied to the current session without exiting X and re-entering
- >it?
-
- Any changes that you make in the .Xdefaults file won't take effect until
- you a) restart X or b) type "xrdb .Xdefaults" to effectively read in the
- new defaults. I believe that you can do xrdb from any xterm session and
- it will take effect.
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- Comp. Sci. ][ Georgia Institute of Technology ][ -Rush/COS
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