Re: Xdefaults being ignored?

[Chris Gray <cgray@tribsoft.com>]

>>>>> Brian Potkin writes:

    bp> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:09:36PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler
    bp> wrote:
    >>> Hi,
    >>> 
    >>> I have the weirdest problem: Whatever I enter into my
    >>> ~/.Xdefaults seems to be ignored entirely. I tried to make my
    >>> mouse wheel work with netscape; pasted the relevant lines from
    >>> http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ to
    >>> ~/.Xdefaults - nothing.  I edited (for test purposes)
    >>> ~/.Xdefaults to look like this: --- xterm*background: white
    >>> xterm*foreground: black
    >>> 
    >>> --- Xterm is still white text on a black background (I tried
    >>> different capitalizations of 'xterm', also).  I really don't
    >>> understand what's going on.  I am running the latest Woody
    >>> with XF4.0.1 and gnome/sawfish.  Any ideas, anyone?

    bp> Try creating the file ~/.Xresources instead.  I think this is
    bp> used by X on Debian rather than ~/.Xdefaults.

If that doesn't work, you might need to put the line

xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults        

in your ~/.xsession.

Cheers,
Chris