On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:09:36PM -0500, Juergen Fiedler 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?
Try creating the file ~/.Xresources instead. I think this is used by X on Debian rather than ~/.Xdefaults. Brian. -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
