Why doesn't .Xdefaults work

[Collins Richey]

On Sun, 23 Mar 2003 03:13:48 +0100
Norbert Augenstein <norbert at augenstein.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 03:30:32PM -0700, 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*savedLines 500
> > 

> suggest using colons
> 

Previous hint (Llama) was check ~/.xsession-errors, but absolutely
nothing in that file.

What do you mean by "use colons"?

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Collins