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> On Nov 29, 1:07 am, James Cloos <cl...@jhcloos.com> wrote:
>
> > I usually keep a symlink ~/.Xdefaults-$(hostname) pointing to .Xdefaults
> > to make management easier.
>
On Nov 29, 7:13 pm, rustom <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I can do that....
> ... the next time I have a similar problem I'll try this.

Well the problem recurred and I tried this but this did not work.
What worked was a. xrdb < .Xdefaults followed by reboot (logout not
enough)

What triggered? Dunno but I think it was having one system firefox
(iceape actually) interleaved with the newest firefox 3 alpha5.