Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!ATHENA.MIT.EDU!swick From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: .Xdefaults not being read... Message-ID: <8712101834.AA00740@LYRE.MIT.EDU> Date: 10 Dec 87 18:34:22 GMT References: <572@nysernic> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 6 Actually, .Xdefaults is being read (and correctly, at that). There are multiple known bugs, all fixed in next release (of Xrm), that have conspired against you, among which XrmPutDataBase is broken. As a work-around, specify application-specific resources by name rather than by class; i.e. 'xclock.reverseVideo: on'.