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Hi Solaris Experts:

   Thanks to some kind suggestions, I have Seyon compiled.  Now
I'm wondering about .Xdefaults.  

   I have Solaris 2.5/X86/DU3.  

   I installed Motif with CDE.  Seyon say put values in
.Xdefaults in my home directory.  I was surprised to see that
this file is absent.  Like I was surprised to see no .profile
when I first brought up CDE.  

   When I created an .Xdefaults, and identified my modem's serial
port device id for Seyon, logged off, logged on, .Xdefault was
ignored.  When I asserted this arg in the command line, things
worked.  

   How do I get .Xdefaults processed?  Or does CDE get it's
resource database from a different file?  

                                                        Thanks
                                                        Larry

Quote:>>    I installed Motif with CDE.  Seyon say put values in
> .Xdefaults in my home directory.  I was surprised to see that
> this file is absent.  Like I was surprised to see no .profile
> when I first brought up CDE.  

Quote:

>    When I created an .Xdefaults, and identified my modem's serial
> port device id for Seyon, logged off, logged on, .Xdefault was
> ignored.  When I asserted this arg in the command line, things
> worked.  

>    How do I get .Xdefaults processed?  Or does CDE get it's
> resource database from a different file?

xrdb -merge .Xdefaults

then it reads them into the database.  Now if you exit cleanly from CDE, it
saves your resources in ~/.dt/sessions/current/dt.resources, and they should
work for the subsequent logins.

I don't know how to get it to read .Xdefaults at login, or whether that is not
how it is meant to work - maybe someone else can post a follow-up about this?

Quote:

>                                                         Thanks
>                                                         Larry

Best Regards,

Brian S. Craigie
Unix Sysadmin
NEC Semiconductors (UK) Ltd

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