[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 10334] New: xfce's xinitrc calls xrdb -merge with -nocpp

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10334

            Bug ID: 10334
           Summary: xfce's xinitrc calls xrdb -merge with -nocpp
    Classification: Xfce
           Product: Xfce4-session
           Version: Unspecified
          Hardware: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Medium
         Component: General
          Assignee: xfce-bugs at xfce.org
          Reporter: erik at fscking.org
        QA Contact: bjt23 at cornell.edu
                CC: benny at xfce.org, nick at xfce.org

Hi Guys,

as it has been pointed out already [1], xfce4's xinitrc runs xrdb -merge on the
user's Xresources file using the -nocpp option. While I can certainly
understand the benefit of using -nocpp for well-defined system-wide resources,
doing so on a user's Xresources file (which in fact often contains cpp
preprocessor directives) results in undefined behaviour and breaks
compatibility with other desktops environments. Instead, I would prefer to have
either the -nocpp option or the xrdb call removed completely. The latter will
simply result in the correct behavior on most distributions since there the
user's Xresources are already (correctly) loaded without -nocpp by a
system-wide xsession.d-snippet.

cheers,

  erik


[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=648553

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