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On Sat, 06 Nov 2004 12:47:47 +0200, Juhapekka Tolvanen wrote:

> 
> 
> JS <asd@asd.com> writes:
> 
>> I have to enter this each time before running emacs to make the
>> changes in my .Xdefault have effect in emacs. Is there someway to make
>> the settings in .Xdefault have permanent effect??
> 
> cd $HOME
> ln -s .Xdefaults .Xresources
> ln -s .Xdefaults .xresources


Thank you very much that did it! But I only had to type ln -s .Xdefaults
.xresources once i a terminal window.