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From: asente@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: app-defaults or xrdb?
Message-ID: <2417@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 9 Jan 90 21:42:53 GMT
References: <4468@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi>
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab
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In article <4468@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> tml@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes:
>Am I correct in assuming that you are supposed to achieve site-wide
>defaults by loading resources from some file via xinit or xdm, not by
>editing files in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults?

Nope.  One of the principal motivations for the app-defaults files was to
allow site-wide customizations without having to modify the source code.

	-paul asente
	    asente@decwrl.dec.com	decwrl!asente