why do i need xrdb m when xdefaults unchanged i m having an x resource problem using brian wilson s wscrawl a wonderful interactive conferencing program by the way i m running openwindows on a sparc under os i have the following defaults in my xdefaults file among many others wscrawl telepointername kevin wscrawl syncscrollbars true wscrawl continuoustelepointer true wscrawl showpointercoordinates false wscrawl background lightblue wscrawl swindow foreground yellow wscrawl draw area frame foreground blue wscrawl keyboardfocuspolicy pointer naturally i exited the server and restarted it after adding those lines to xdefaults if i run the following from a cmdtool pwd my home dir xrdb m xdefaults and then start up wscrawl then all those defaults are used properly wonderful yes except that i can t get them to be operative except by manually invoking the afore mentioned xrdb command if i try xrdb xdefaults the defaults won t take so i tried to change the xrdb call in my xinitrc file from xrdb home xdefaults to xrdb m home xdefaults no go so i tried adding in xrdb m home kbw xdefaults at the beginning or end of my openwin init file still no go any notions what gives thanks for the help kevin weinrich computer sciences corp kbw helios ath epa gov
