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pyre on Aug 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: 4bit - Terminal Color Scheme Designer

You just create a ~/.Xresources file and when you log into X11, the session should source that file.

You can also force-load it (into your current X11 session) with:

  xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources

or

  xrdb -load ~/.Xresources

It's also possible to put it in the ~/.Xdefaults file, though I'm not sure what the difference is.

ciembor on Aug 21, 2012 [–]

.Xdefaults do the same thing, but it looks this file is deprecated. I may recomend the Arch Linux Wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/X_resources .

dhimes on Aug 21, 2012 | [–]

Thank you both.

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