> Why doesn't X read ~/.Xdefaults? It reads ~/.Xdefaults-miallen where > miallen is my username but why is the username necessary when it's already > specific to me through my home directory? It's just odd. > > Mike It does read it on my system. Did you restart X to force it to read the file? If that fails try once with xrdb ~/.Xdefaults. Possibly the syntax in the file is incorrect. Regards, Benedict