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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: xrdb and motif
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Date: 29 Oct 90 22:41:27 GMT
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>  xrdb -l ~/.Xdefaults does not seem to work when using the mwm.
> I have to exit the mwm session and then re-xinit for changes to 
> Xdefaults to take effect. 
> 
>  A co-worker had no problem using xrdb with Twm.  Does it not work
> with mwm ????
You certainly have to rerun mwm.  But that's all.  If you don't have to
do that with Twm I assume it's doing some special stuff to reload
resources - that would work for application defined things, but not
for the Intrinsics.  TWM probably doesn't use Xt, Mwm does.