.Xresources and .Xdefaults under Ubuntu
This is just a small tip that I want to share since I had a bit of a headache before managing to solve this.
Problem
You want to use your .Xdefaults or .Xresources file for setting xterm properties and whatnot under Ubuntu, but what worked under other distributions/desktop environments isn’t working. You might have tried fidgeting with the new (confusing) GDM settings but can’t get it quite to work.
Solution
Append -hostname to the .Xdefaults file, i.e.
mv .Xdefaults .Xdefaults-zweck
Works on my computer (named zweck).
And that’s that. No need to restart anything. I hope that will help some poor *NIX traveler some day.
Bonus tip:
if you find that alt+KEY doesn’t work as expected in xterm under Ubuntu, add the line
xterm*eightBitInput: falseto your .Xdefaults-hostname file.