Riku,
Thank you very much for the time you take to follow this thread!
My /etc/X11/Xsession looks a bit different from yours:
if [ -d $sysresources ]; then
if [ "$(echo $sysresources/*)" != "$sysresources/*" ]; then
for resourcefile in $(ls $sysresources/* 2> /dev/null | egrep
'^[-/_[:alnum:]]*$'); do
xrdb -merge $resourcefile
done
fi
fi
However, as of today I am on vacation and I won't have access to my PC
at work until mid January so I won't be able to test any changes. I
believe I'm going to reinstall xfree86-common to overwrite all
configuration files. If that doesn't work I'll bother you and the Debian
list again ;)
I wish you (and all of you Debianers) a Merry Christmas and Happy
Holidays in love and peace!
--
Pedro
Riku Saikkonen wrote:
>
> "Pedro Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >Riku Saikkonen wrote:
> >> You could try running XFig with "xfig -xrm '*customization: -color'",
> >> just in case that helps. If it does, there is some sort of problem in
> >> your X startup scripts - either /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common is
> >> not loaded, the X server does not define COLOR for some reason, or
> >> there is another *customization resource set somewhere.
> >Yes, running xfig like this brings back the colors!
> ...
> >So, who is supposed to load /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common? and,
> >how come the X server does not define COLOR? Shall I reinstall X from
> >scratch?
>
> /etc/X11/Xsession is the generic X startup script, whose job it is to
> establish such things as resources (including ~/.Xresources), loading
> a possible ~/.Xmodmap, etc. The following code in it does the loading
> of /etc/X11/Xresources/*:
>
> if [ -d $sysresources ]; then
> xrdb -load /dev/null # work around wdm brain damage
> if [ "$(echo $sysresources/*)" != "$sysresources/*" ]; then
> for resourcefile in $(ls $sysresources/* 2> /dev/null | egrep
> '^[-/_[:alnum:
> ]]*$'); do
> xrdb -merge $resourcefile
> done
> fi
> fi
>
> Hmm, I just thought of something. The process of upgrading X11
> sometimes asks you whether to replace /etc/X11/Xsession with the new
> version or not; if you have an old version of this file, it might not
> know that /etc/X11/Xresources/ is a directory (this was changed
> relatively recently). If you don't have the above code in your
> /etc/X11/Xsession (especially the "$(ls $sysresources/*" part), you
> should get the new version of the file. The easiest way is probably to
> reinstall the xfree86-common package and answer "y" if it asks whether
> to replace that file.
>
> To see whether the X system defines COLOR, try running "xrdb -merge
> /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common" manually before you run XFig and
> see if you get the colors. If you do, the X system (more specifically,
> the xrdb program) does define COLOR, which is correct. (The above
> command is what /etc/X11/Xsession should execute, among other things.)
>
> It might also be that the Xsession file isn't being run for some
> reason. A ~/.xinitrc in your home directory is probably the most
> common problem. Otherwise, if you use xdm, you could try reinstalling
> it; I haven't used it in a long time, but I hear there have been some
> problems with it some time ago.
>
> Some details on how startx works, in case you're interested: (xdm is
> similar, but I don't know its details)
>
> The "startx" command starts /usr/X11R6/bin/startx, which is a shell
> script. This starts the xinit program, giving it some standard
> arguments, including the file name /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc (=
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc). This file (also a shell script) is what xinit
> runs to initialise the X session. xinitrc should simply execute
> /etc/X11/Xsession, which does the rest (including loading your
> ~/.Xsession and starting a window manager).
>
> There's also a /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc, which is used to start the X
> server itself. You can use it to give additional options to the X
> server, if you want to; for example, if you don't want it to listen on
> TCP port 6000 (which is not necessary if you don't use X applications
> remotely or if you forward remote X connections via ssh), put the
> following line in /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc:
> exec X -nolisten tcp "$@"
>
> --
> -=- Rjs -=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
