Hello, all

I am one of the strange guys who try invent their own
16-color ANSI palette that will be better than all the rest.
In the middle of my first experiment I was frustrated by the
difficulty peristing the cusom colors throught system start-
up:

1. I duly saved my palette under ~/.Xresouces, and
2. merged it: xrdb -merge .Xresource

Now, when I restart xterm the new colors are put in effect,
but after system restart they are gone again. Must I
manually load them at startup from ~/.profile? The `xrdb'
man page says the file name depends on the desktop
environment:

Xrdb does not load any files on its own, but many desktop
environments use xrdb to load ~/.Xresources files on
session startup to initialize the resource database, as a
generalized replacement for ~/.Xdefaults files.

Does the Raspbian LXDE use some non-standard file?

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On Mon, 19 Sep 2022 00:40:21 +0300
Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.com> wrote:

Now, when I restart xterm the new colors are put in effect,
but after system restart they are gone again. Must I
manually load them at startup from ~/.profile? The `xrdb'
man page says the file name depends on the desktop
environment:

~/.xinitrc or ~/.xsession are the normal places for things like
this because .profile gets loaded in every shell (including ones without
access to an X server) whereas .xinitrc gets loaded once by startx
and .xsession gets loaded once by the display manager.

It is possible that some display managers don't follow this
standard - I haven't used one in decades, I like a text login and startx.

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