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Originally Posted by bellsal
Below are my two files (.Xdefaults and .Xresources); when I open an xterm window, I get the desired results on two of my linux servers, but I get no effect on my third linux servers. It is as if these two files are not being read. Any ideas?
.Xdefaults:
!after editing .Xdefaults it may be reloaded with:
!xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults
xterm*VT100*geometry: 94x28
xterm*font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-1
xterm*background: black
xterm*foreground: lightblue
xterm*loginShell: true
xterm*scrollBar: true
xterm*rightScrollBar: true
xterm*title: XTerm
xterm*iconName: XTerm
xterm*saveLines: 50000
xterm*jumpScroll: true
xterm*scrollTtyOutput: false
xterm*scrollKey: true
xterm*alwaysUseMods: true
xterm*metaSendsEscape: true
xterm*utf8Title: true
.Xresources:
Xft*antialias: true
Xft*autohint: true
XTerm*background: black
XTerm*foreground: white
XTerm*cursorColor: white
XTerm.vt100.geometry: 79x25
XTerm*scrollBar: true
XTerm*rightScrollBar: true
XTerm*saveLines: 10000
XTerm*faceName: BitStream Vera Sans Mono
XTerm*faceSize: 12
XTerm*toolBar: off
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What are the environments on the three systems? Is the third system different in some way from the other two? How are you starting the xterms?
Q: Are you issuing:
Code:
xrdb -load (or "-merge") ~/.Xresources
after making changes? Or just the ~/.Xdefaults?
(I cannot say I've ever made adjustments using ".Xdefaults". Only via ".Xresources" in my login profile. For example, I just changed the Xterm cursor color in .Xresources , merged the changes, and a new xterm showed that the change had been recognized.
Normally, one could use "editres" to examine/modify the resources used by an X application but I notice that, sadly, at least on KDE, it doesn't seem to do anything any more unless you're running older X applications like xterm, xman, etc.. (Bummer) "editres" used to give you the information you'd need to tweak the resources---how else would you know about setting things like "xman.manualBrowser.vertPane.manualPage.manualFontBold: XMANFONTBOLD"? I do note, though, that only some settings I've tried to alter when running an xterm under KDE actually get changed. Perhaps if I were running twm instead of KDE...
(Yikes! I just noticed that my .Xresources file still has settings for Netscape in it.)