Re: Xdefaults being ignored?
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:09:36PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler 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?
Try creating the file ~/.Xresources instead. I think this is used by X
on Debian rather than ~/.Xdefaults.
Brian.
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