I am using the following in my home.nix:
xresources.properties = {
"Sxiv.background" = "#000000";
"Sxiv.foreground" = "#f8f8f2";
};
I can see that ~/.Xresources is getting updated properly, but it does not seem that it is being loaded by xrdb. When I run sxiv, it does not use the settings in .Xresources, but if I run xrdb ~/.Xresources, then the settings are used by sxiv.
Why do I have to manually run xrdb? Is there a better way to make changes to .Xresources and have them loaded by xrdb automatically?