On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 04:23:11PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 12:59:59AM -0700, J. Imlay wrote: > > I am running a fresh install with 4.2 (but it was doing this with 4.1) and > > when I start an xterm it completly ignores my .Xdefaults file. > > $ man Xsession > > $HOME/.Xresources > contains X resources specific to the invoking user's environ- > ment. The settings are loaded with xrdb -merge. Note that > $HOME/.Xdefaults is a relic from X Version 10 (and X11R1) days, > before app-defaults files were implemented. It has been depre- > cated for over ten years at the time of this writing. .Xre- > sources should be used instead.
Mmm, following this, i renamed my .Xdefaults-<hostname> to .Xresources, and since then my xterm ignores those changes, so maybe there is something more going on here (but then, as you well know, i am mostly ignorant of how this really work/should work). Friendly, Sven Luther
