Fixing .Xdefaults in Ubuntu
Posted by hardwarehank, Thu Oct 26 16:16:15 UTC 2006
I have been having a problem getting .Xdefaults to be loaded in X. This is a major issue for me since I like my fonts to be a certain size in aterm, but I don’t want to hack up my runline in fluxbox to reflect all the custom settings. Therefore, I have all my settings defined in the .Xdefaults file. So, tonight, after I upgraded to Edgy Eft, I decided that this needed to be fixed. After a quick google google I found that all I had to do was run:
xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
And all my problems were solved. A quick insert into .fluxbox/startup and I was in business.
In other news, Edgy Eft Rocks. Just customized the default GDM theme so it looks better. I think I might want to get a MacBook or a nice Powerbook G4 for my next laptop. Apparently, in Linux, you can make the touchpad act like Synaptics with a driver hack to put it in raw mode. As far as I can tell, this is merged in the newest Linux kernels. This allows for the kind of tap clicking I like (1 finger for left button, 2 for middle, 3 for right), and thanks to a broken left touchpad button on the Asus M6N I have, I’ve gotten used to this style of clicking, and I like it now.
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