.Xdefaults not being read

[thetrystero]

hmm .. but i'm not really doing anything too funky in .Xdefaults, just
setting background and foreground colors.
i've done this on my linux box before and i didn't have cpp installed but it
worked fine.


Phil Betts-2 wrote:
> 
> thetrystero wrote on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 9:59 AM::
> 
>> I just installed cygwin on Windows 2000 using the setup file. I used
>> the 
>> default installation plus all of the X11 files. I'm now having
>> trouble with 
>> xterms starting up without picking up the configurations in
>> ~/.Xdefaults. 
>> when I try to do a xrdb ~/.Xdefaults, I get the following error:
>> 
>> /bin/sh: cpp: command not found
>> 
>> Very strange .. what does xrdb have to do with C++?
> 
> cpp is the C Pre-Processor, used to process #if/#endif etc.
> It can be installed by installing the gcc-core package.
> 
> 
> Phil
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