A unix is a unix is a unix is not a GNU
I started dabbling with FreeBSD when I was 14 or so. I had a few friends who were a little bit older, a whole lot nerdier and obviously a tad cooler than me, and they were the people who first introduced me to the world of UNIX. A bit later I started using Debian at [...]
.Xresources and .Xdefaults under Ubuntu
This is just a small tip that I want to share since I had a bit of a headache before managing to solve this.
Problem
You want to use your .Xdefaults or .Xresources file for setting xterm properties and whatnot under Ubuntu, but what worked under other distributions/desktop environments isn’t working. You might have tried fidgeting with [...]