Aterm not reading ~/.Xdefaults after update

[brian.harker]

Hi all-
I'm running FC4 on Averatec 3250 laptop (1.67 GHz AMD Athlon XP-M, 1 GB RAM)
I'd been having some problems with vi and aterm cooperating...so I updated both, which went fine...it corrected the problem, but after updating aterm, when I want to open up an rxvt terminal, aterm doesn't read my ~/.Xdefaults anymore, so my configuration is not used...

calling aterm with the appropriate command-line options still works, but anyone have any ideas why it would stop reading my defaults?

aterm is aterm-0.4.2-1.2.fc4.rf
and my .Xdefaults reads:

Aterm*scrollBar:true
Aterm*scrollBar_right:true
Aterm*transpscrollbar:true
Aterm*loginShell:true
Aterm*transparent:true
Aterm*colorMode:true
Aterm*tintingType:true
Aterm*shading:40
Aterm*fading:50
Aterm*title:Terminal
Aterm*iconName:Terminal
Aterm*font:-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15
Aterm*geometry:100x40
Aterm*background:Black
Aterm*foreground:White
Aterm*saveLines:32767

EDIT: oddly enough, if I enter 'aterm' in the CLI of the non-configured aterm, a new aterm pops up that is correctly reading the .Xdefaults file (!) what is going on?

EDIT: xrdb -merge .Xdefaults has no effect



Any ideas would be greatly appreciated...thanks!

[Javasnob]

Did you try xrdb merge ~/.Xdefaults?

[brian.harker]

yeah, see EDIT #2 above...all it does is change my default white font to black...

any ideas?

[Javasnob]

What window manager are you using?

[brian.harker]

KDE 3.5 with Xorg X 7.0

any suggestions?

[brian.harker]

well,never figured out why .Xdefaults is not being read...

for now, just specified all my aterm preferences as options on the command-line when calling aterm.

[macondo]

IIRC, KDE erases the .Xdefaults every time you re-enter the X environment.