In a message dated 3/14/99 6:21:50 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > I want my xterms to be yellow on black, and use a geometry that I choose: > > Here's my /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm file: > > > > XTerm*background: black > > XTerm*foreground: yellow > > XTerm*geometry: 69x28 > > > > Any way I open up an Xterm window, it displays full screen in black on > white. > > Why isn't it reading my resources file? > > X clients do not read the resources file. X resource declarations are > stored by the X server itself, so you need to either restart the X server, > or tell it to re-generate its resource database. > > You do the latter with the xrdb command. For instance, > > xrdb -merge /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm > xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xresources > > Well, restarting the X server didn't help any, so I'll try using xrdb. -Jay
