On Thursday 23 May 2002 02:27, you wrote: > I'm running 8.2 but I've had this problem with earlier releases of > Mandrake, too. How, exactly, do X resources get set on Mandrake? For > instance, I have Rxvt*font, Rxvt*background and Rxvt*foreground set in > my ~/.Xdefaults file. The font resource works, but the colour settings > get ignored. emacs*Font also has no effect. xterm*background is set to > 'white' but I get some sort of pale lemon yellow instead. > This does it for me:
# cat ~/.Xdefaults emacs.background: white emacs.foreground: black emacs.font: fixed Narfi.