Re: it seems my Gnuplot 4.0 didn't read my ~/.Xdefaults

[Reiner S. <rei...@im...>]

On Sat, Feb 25 2006, Ethan A Merritt wrote:

> On Saturday 25 February 2006 10:47 am, Ethan A Merritt wrote:
>> gnuplot (or any other x11 application) does not read the .Xdefaults
>> file by itself.   Instead, the x11 server reads the file when you
>> begin a new X-session, and applies the values in finds there to
>> answer queries from any applications (like gnuplot) that run later.

Maybe better use ~/.Xresources instead of ~/.Xdefaults; see X(1).

>> You can force an update of the x-session values
>> by typing:
>> 	xrdb -merge < ~/.Xdefaults
>
> Bleah. Sorry.  That should have been
> 	cat ~/.Xdefaults | xrdb -merge

What's the difference (apart from UUOC[1])?

(BTW, "xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults" should also work[2])

Bye, Reiner.

[1] Useless use of cat

[2] SYNOPSIS
       xrdb [-option ...] [filename]
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