diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 99a56f4..fb2c694 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-[submodule "xresources"]
-	path = xresources
-	url = git://github.com/solarized/xresources.git
 [submodule "xfce4-terminal-colors-solarized"]
 	path = xfce4-terminal-colors-solarized
 	url = git://github.com/solarized/xfce4-terminal-colors-solarized.git
diff --git a/xresources b/xresources
deleted file mode 160000
index fa36bb1..0000000
--- a/xresources
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit fa36bb11226d4387cc907414cb24ac2ecc7b57a7