I installed a newer version of Xfig, and to get proper color, I added "*customize -color" to my .Xdefaults file.
This is a very general option, which is good to have there for everyone. However, I have about 100 users on my system, so editing everyones .Xdefaults is a bit of work. (Sure, I already did it with "for" and echo >>", but nevertheless...)
So, I'm wondering if there is a global system-wide .Xdefaults where I can put this (and other) options, much like /etc/profile, where I can add e.g. a PATH to all users without modifying every single $HOME/.bash_profile.
Many thanks,
Anders Blom
blom@teorfys.lu.se
Anyway, I don't think there is a global Xdefaults that you will find on any distro. Still many distros have created one. E.g. RedHat's xdm /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession script looks for "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/
This tells you how to find one on your system. Do you use xdm/kdm/gdm? Go to their directory in /etc/X11/ and search through the session scripts for the place that they look for. Edit or create that file. If the session script doesn't look for a global Xdefaults then create one yourself at a handy place and read it in from the session script with "xrdb -merge /path/to/your/Xdefaults/".