xterm not honoring ~/.X11/app-defaults

"Christian V. J. Brüssow" info at cvjb.de
Tue Nov 1 17:49:01 UTC 2005


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).

Greetings,

Christian





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