I'm running 8.2 but I've had this problem with earlier releases of Mandrake, too. How, exactly, do X resources get set on Mandrake? For instance, I have Rxvt*font, Rxvt*background and Rxvt*foreground set in my ~/.Xdefaults file. The font resource works, but the colour settings get ignored. emacs*Font also has no effect. xterm*background is set to 'white' but I get some sort of pale lemon yellow instead.
I've run 'xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults' both manually and from X startup scripts, to no avail. I'm aware of /etc/X11/app-defaults, but I cannot find the settings that override mine in there. [ By the way, why on earth are Emacs colours set to yellow text on green background by default? I have never ever seen anyone actually use those colours and I know a fair number people who spend most of their waking hours on Emacs. ] How do the user X resources get overridden and where should they be defined if not in ~/.Xdefaults? All of the above settings can be overridden from the command line when invoking the programs, but having to do that is a nuisance. I'm running Window Maker or PWM, I never use KDE. Mikko
