>>>>> Brian Potkin writes:
bp> On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:09:36PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler
bp> 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?
bp> Try creating the file ~/.Xresources instead. I think this is
bp> used by X on Debian rather than ~/.Xdefaults.
If that doesn't work, you might need to put the line
xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults
in your ~/.xsession.
Cheers,
Chris
