Re: Xterm not showing Xresources changes
In a message dated 3/14/99 6:21:50 PM Central Standard Time,
branden@ecn.purdue.edu writes:
> > I want my xterms to be yellow on black, and use a geometry that I choose:
> > Here's my /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm file:
> >
> > XTerm*background: black
> > XTerm*foreground: yellow
> > XTerm*geometry: 69x28
> >
> > Any way I open up an Xterm window, it displays full screen in black on
> white.
> > Why isn't it reading my resources file?
>
> X clients do not read the resources file. X resource declarations are
> stored by the X server itself, so you need to either restart the X server,
> or tell it to re-generate its resource database.
>
> You do the latter with the xrdb command. For instance,
>
> xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm
> xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources
>
>
Well, restarting the X server didn't help any, so I'll try using xrdb.
-Jay
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