On 3/30/06, Ben Arthur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i installed apple's X11, and then fink to get octave. now i'm trying
> to customize my xterm window by adding stuff to .Xdefaults and
> .Xresources and it's not working. for some reason when i start X11
> it's not reading these files. i know the files work by themselves,
> b/c i can do a "xrdb -merge .Xresources" manually on the command
> line and get the desired results. the default xinitrc file in
> /etc/X11/xinit supposedly does just that, as there is an identical
> line in there, but for some reason it just doesn't happen. any ideas
> as to why the default xinitrc file wouldn't execute?
>

Do you have your own .xinitrc?  That will prevent the system's from being used.

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Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documenter
[Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/


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