Re: Xdefaults being ignored?

[Juergen Fiedler <juergen@fiedlerfamily.net>]

Both methods (renaming .Xdefaults to .Xresources or using xrdb)
worked equally well. Finally, I can have my xterm black on white.
Why did I want to do that again?

Thanks so much!
j

On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 11:09:15PM -0500, Chris Gray wrote:
> >>>>> Brian Potkin writes:
> 
>     bp> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:09:36PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler
>     bp> wrote:
[...] 
>     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.
[...]