.Xdefaults not being read after i reboot.

[Daniel Underwood]

Why not just create a symbolic link in /usr/bin/ or /usr/local/bin/ to
the xterm binary? If a link named xterm already exists, delete it.
Seems like you're making this more complicated than in ought to be.


On Monday, May 4, 2009, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Mon, May 04, 2009 at 10:23:00AM -0500, sktsee wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 12:42 +0100, Jamie Griffin wrote:
>> > hello everyone
>> >
>> > I'm using Jaunty with the gnome desktop. I prefer to use xterm rather
>> > than the gnome terminal and have created an .Xdefaults configuration
>> > file in my home directory to customise it. However, each time i start
>> > up my laptop (either reboot or starting up for the first time that
>> > morning) and open xterm this file is not read and the xterm opens with
>> > the system-wide default settings, and to change this i have to use the
>> > command `xrdb .Xdefaults` to get an xterm session using my preferred
>> > settings. After doing so, the xterm stays as i want it to for the
>> > remaining time logged in to my pc.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure why this is happening and how to make xterm use the
>> > config
>> >  file in my home directory and wondered if anyone else knows how?
>> >
>>
>> Try renaming your Xdefaults to .Xdefaults-hostname of computer.
>>
>> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/en/man7/X.7.html
>> (look in the XENVIRONMENT section)
>
> or, if that doesn't help, use ~/.Xresources.
>
> Marius Gedminas
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