Why doesn't .Xdefaults work

[Norbert Augenstein]

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"?
> 

aterm*saveLines: number

using ":" as seperator, otherwise the whole line will be ignored

auge

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