nicaugh@otago.ac.nz (06/06/91)
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 ~/.Xdefaults file is read however if I setenv DISPLAY to be a Iris 4D20 on our net, but never on the decstation. Can anyone please suggest a solution/where in the manual to find a solution. Thanks in advance Nigel =============================================================================== Nigel Caughey Phone : +64-3-4799939 Animation Research Unit Fax : +64-3-4799915 University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand Email : nicaugh@otago.ac.nz Any Opinions Expressed are mine and not my employers
gringort@wsl.dec.com (Joel Gringorten) (06/07/91)
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