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vlachoudis

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Registered: 2021-08-25

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How to load .Xresources before session is restored

Hi all,

on my new 4k display laptop, I have a customized .Xresources to adjust the fonts for xterm and some other applications.
The .Xresources are loaded on startup, however it seems that they are loaded after the session is restored.
So all applications like xterm etc that are restored from the session on startup, have the default settings, and the ones
that I manually start later on, have the modified settings from .Xresources

How can I force the system to load the .Xresources before the session is restored?

Thanks in advance
Vasilis

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: How to load .Xresources before session is restored

How are you starting Xfce? The startxfce4 script loads ~/.Xresources before running xfce4-session (which would manage the restore from saved sessions) so Xresources should already be merged by that point.

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vlachoudis

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Re: How to load .Xresources before session is restored

Its a brand new xubuntu installation, after login with lightdm it enters directly in the graphics environment

Last edited by vlachoudis (2021-08-26 17:31:23)

ToZ

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Re: How to load .Xresources before session is restored

My understanding is that lightdm loads the ~/.Xresources file on login. See the /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log file:

[+5.88s] DEBUG: Session pid=661: Running command /etc/lightdm/Xsession startxfce4

If you look at /etc/lightdm/Xsession, you can see how it loads the .Xresources file before starting startxfce4 (which starts xfce4-session).

Since you are seeing something different, it may be best to create a bug report against xfce4-session to see if a developer can provide some insight. I've had a look at the current open issues, but none of them seem to pertain to this.

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vlachoudis

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Re: How to load .Xresources before session is restored

Thank you @ToZ
indeed the lightdm.log has a similar line

[+9.73s] DEBUG: Session pid=1124: Running command /usr/sbin/lightdm-session startxfce4

and the lightdm-session normally should load the $HOME/.Xresources

# Load resources
if type xrdb >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    xresourcedir="/etc/X11/Xresources"
    if [ -d "$xresourcedir" ]; then
        for file in $xresourcedir/*; do
            echo "Loading resource: $file"
            xrdb -merge "$file"
        done
    fi
    xresourcefile="$HOME/.Xresources"
    if [ -f "$xresourcefile" ]; then
        echo "Loading resource: $xresourcefile"
        xrdb -merge "$xresourcefile"
    fi
fi

but I still get the problem.
I will post the bug on xfce4-session as you suggested

Last edited by vlachoudis (2021-08-27 18:05:11)