Re: What is the proper way to set the default font these days?

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "Miles" == Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

Miles> The "rules" (by my observation) are a bit bizarre: If there's
Miles> _anything_ in the server's database, even entries for an
Miles> unrelated application, then ~/.Xdefaults is completely ignored,
Miles> and only entries from the server database are used; otherwise
Miles> ~/.Xdefaults is used.

After the above, then ~/.Xdefaults-$HOSTNAME is always read.

The idea is that ~/.Xdefaults-$HOSTNAME is for settings which are
specific to one client machine and the server's database for settings
which are specific to one server.  Reading ~/.Xdefaults is a backup
measure for the cases where the user does not have a $HOME on the
server.

Obviously this distinction is more useful when one has multiple boxen
with a shared /home (eg by nfs) and uses X over tcp.  (That was a very
common setup when the coding was done.)

This logic is in libX11, for those who'd like to read the src.

-JimC
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