I am trying to get my xterm window under gnome to open with large fonts, with light green foreground and dark green background. I have the following .Xdefaults file contents:

$ cat .Xdefaults ! This is a comment ;-)

#ifdef COLOR *customization: -color #endif

!! Let's cast a wide net, for any app supporting these ! Blink instead of beeping *visualBell: True *scrollTtyOutput: False *scrollKey: True

XTerm*saveLines: 1500 ! Do not clear the screen after the program exits XTerm*VT100*titeInhibit: true

! Enable soft cut and paste XTerm*VT100.translations: #override \ : select-end(PRIMARY, CLIPBOARD, CUT_BUFFER0)

! Fix up xterm's keybindings xterm*VT100.translations: #override \ <Key>BackSpace: string(0x7F) \n\ <Key>Insert: string(0x1b) string("[2~")\n\ <Key>Delete: string(0x1b) string("[3~")\n\ <Key>Home: string(0x1b) string("[1~")\n\ <Key>End: string(0x1b) string("[4~")\n\ <Key>Page_Up: string(0x1b) string("[5~")\n\ <Key>Page_Down: string(0x1b) string("[6~")\n\ <KeyPress>Prior: scroll-back(1,page)\n\ <KeyPress>Next: scroll-forw(1,page)

! Set xterm defaults Xterm*background: darkgreen Xterm*foreground: lightgreen

Xterm*font: 9x15

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At some point I had the colours displaying correctly but I could not get the default font to change to large. In an attempt to get Xterm to use the above file I ran the command:

$ xrdb ~/.Xdefaults

Now when xterm opens I have a black on white display with tiny fonts. I have to use Xterm in a specific instance because the version of gnome terminal that ships with CentOS-5 breaks vt102 emulation horribly. I have already spent way too much time trying to get Xterm and Xdefaults to work together as they should. I do not understand what it is that I am missing or doing wrong. Can somebody please point out what is wrong with my configuration?

I have already read, and reread, the man page.

Thanks,