Its been a few versions now since we would get a default .Xdefaults ~/. I've just been bringing along an old and much revised on for quite a long time now. I wondered why we don't get an .Xdefaults anymore, and if all that sort of stuff is expected to be handled by one of the heavyweight wm? If its just a user choice then I wondered if there is any reason to not continue using my ancient .Xdefaults? Any reason to change to ~/.xresources, for example.