My .Xresources is a symlink to .Xdefaults and I've had no problems either. I just checked /usr/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc script and it thinks .Xresources is the right file. Here's a small snippet from the file. The $userresources variable is defined as 'usrresources=$HOME/.Xresources' in the beginning of the file.
if grep -q ^allow-user-resources /etc/X11/config then if [ -f $usrresources ] then xrdb -merge $usrresources fi fi // Heikki -- Heikki Vatiainen * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tampere University of Technology * Tampere, Finland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .