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From: gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Xwindows defaults
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.142731@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 6 Jun 91 21:27:31 GMT
References: <1991Jun6.114416.481@otago.ac.nz>
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In article <1991Jun6.114416.481@otago.ac.nz>, nicaugh@otago.ac.nz writes:
|> I have a problem with X-windows on a Decstation 3100 running ultrix 3.1,
|> X is is Xmfb initialiased using xdm, with uwm window manager.
|> 
|> The problem is that X applications are not reading my ~/.Xdefaults file.
|> The only way I can specify defaults is to use xrdb.

The thing that comes to mind is that your resource data base is already
installed (as a property on your root window.)  The DEC session manager
normally does this -- dunno if xdm does.  If you have the resource data
base already installed, the X toolkit does not bother reading the resources
from your .Xdefaults file.

I think if you first remove the resources on the root window, the toolkit
will get your resources from the .Xdefaults file.  Use the command:  "xrdb -r"

-joel