Re: Where should my Xdefaults file be?

[Philip.R.Schaffner at nasa.gov (Phil Schaffner)]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 10:52 +0900, Dave Gutteridge wrote:
> > It depends on what you want to accomplish. If you want it for your 
> > user only use ~/.Xdefaults 
> 
> I don't know what that tilde implies. Does that mean it would be in (for 
> example) /home/dave/.Xdefaults?

~/ is always the current user's home directory

~username/ is username's home directory

(e.g. ~dave/ is user dave's home directory)

> What if I want it to be a global setting for all users of the computer?

/etc/X11/Xresources

Phil