guidance for making a .Xresources file.

[peasthope@shaw.ca]

Appears that I need to make a .Xresources file before 
TightVNC will work.  Can anyone recommend instructions 
or examples for the task?  The transcript from the 
TightVNC follows.

Thanks,              ... Peter E.

peter@dalton:~$ tightvncserver :1 -geometry 620x730 -depth 16

New 'X' desktop is dalton:1

Starting applications specified in /home/peter/.vnc/xstartup
Log file is /home/peter/.vnc/dalton:1.log

peter@dalton:~$ cat .vnc/dalton:1.log
09/02/11 08:45:59 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9
09/02/11 08:45:59 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 TightVNC Group
09/02/11 08:45:59 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
09/02/11 08:45:59 All Rights Reserved.
09/02/11 08:45:59 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC
09/02/11 08:45:59 Desktop name 'X' (dalton:1)
09/02/11 08:45:59 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t, 3.8t
09/02/11 08:45:59 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
xrdb: No such file or directory
xrdb: can't open file '/home/peter/.Xresources'
peter@dalton:~$

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