On 11/28/05, drovar <drovar@alltel.net> wrote:
>
> I've been reading this list for a while and installed NetBSD on my Mobile
> Pro 780 without too much trouble. But I found the default xterms to be wa=
y
> oversized for my liking. I copied xinitrc into / and changed a few things
> but the changes didn't have any effect. It seems xinit isn't reading
> /.xinitrc at all but rather the read-only copy at
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc

Your copy of xinitrc should be at ~/.xinitrc (where ~ is your home director=
y).

> I used vi to make some
> changes to that file and overroad the read-only status. Those changes sho=
wed
> up.

If you want to change the defaults for xterm, try setting
xterm.geometry in .Xresources.

$ cat ~/.Xrecources
XTerm*vt100.geometry: 40x12