Why doesn't .Xdefaults work

[Net Llama!]

On 03/22/03 14:30, Collins Richey wrote:
> I'm not sure how long this has been going on, but it's got me buffaloed.
> 
> I have the following in ~/.Xdefaults, and this used to work:
> 
> # this is .Xdefaults
> aterm*background '#ffffe0'
> aterm*foreground blue
> aterm*font vga11x19 
> aterm*loginShell True
> aterm*savedLines 500
> 
> Now it is ignored for all of my window managers - kde, xfce, xxxbox, wmaker, and all I get an ugly little bright white window that is not even invoked as a login shell.
> 
> I've also tried this as ~/.Xdefaults-<hostname>, but no difference.
> 
> As a temporary workaround, I have atstart, but I shouldn't have to do this:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> aterm -bg '#ffffe0' -fg blue -font vga11x19 -ls &
> 
> Any ideas?

look at ~/.xsession-errors

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