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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
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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'.