Xterm and the .xdefaults file were not pre-loaded on my system in the first place and even after running Xterm once, I had to create .xdefaults myself. I believe I've put it in the right place:
/home/(user)
For what reason is Xterm ignoring my .xdefaults file? It looks like this now:
xterm*dynamicColors:: true
xterm*background:: black
xterm*foreground:: white
xterm*utf8:: 2
xterm*eightBitInput:: true
xterm*saveLines:: 32767
xterm*scrollTtyKeypress:: true
xterm*scrollTtyOutput:: false
xterm*scrollBar:: false
xterm*loginShell:: true
xterm*faceName:: Monospace:pixelsize=11
xterm*jumpScroll:: true
xterm*multiScroll:: true
xterm*toolBar:: false
xterm*geometry:: 100x30
Is this correct?