xterm not honoring ~/.X11/app-defaults

[stan]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 06:49:01PM +0100, "Christian V. J. Br?ssow" wrote:
> Hi Stan,
> 
> stan schrieb:
> > I tared up ~/.X11 on the old ahcine, untared i in my home directory on the
> > new ubuntu machien, and fire up xter.
> > 
> > Unfortunatley it did not come up with the colrs/fonts I have in the
> > app-defaults file for it.
> > 
> > I thought this was basic X functionaqlity. Any ideas as to why it's not
> > being honored?
> 
> Are you sure? I'm not an X11 expert, but I have never heard of
> ~/.X11/app-defaults (at least under Linux). I'm only knowing
> /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/, /etc/X11/app-defaults/ (a relative new one)
> and ~/.Xdefaults.
> 
> See the FILES section in xterm(1).
> 
Looks like you are correct.

It was there on the old ssytem, but changing something in it has no effect!

Guess I'll need to copy over the ~/.Xdefaults.

Thanks.

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