Why doesn't .Xdefaults work

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 05:21:07PM -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
>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"?

If you're using KDE, make sure that there isn't an app-defaults file for
the aterm under /opt/kde*.  I run into this with xterms in that my
$HOME/XTerm file is ignored unless I comment out everything in the
/opt/kde3/share/apps/kdisplay/app-defaults/XTerm.ad file.  Incidentally,
the comment character in these files is ``!'' not the usual ``#''.

KDE, in its infinite wisdom, seems to read its own app-defaults files
_AFTER_ anything in the user's home directory (SCO OpenServer does much the
same way, using proprietary color names as well which really screws things
in Linux xterms).

Bill
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