.Xdefaults file

Thomas Dickey dickey at radix.net
Wed Dec 23 09:11:24 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:10:26PM +0000, Jamie Griffin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:45:52PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote:
> 
> > > I think case matters here, i.e. XTerm*, not Xterm or xterm.
>  
> > Exactly the problem.  Thank you!
> 
> Curious, on my system (7.2) my ~/.Xdefaults uses lowercase 'xterm*...'
> values.

That would be the application name (the name by which xterm is invoked),
which also is legal - for the top-level.  It's all in the X manpage...

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