I've been told that my .Xdefaults file was modified by the upgrade but
don't see anything in the one in my home area (I suppose it's probably
a systemwide one rather).
There seems to be no man page for nxterm.
The listing for my Xserver from rpm is:
XFree86-3.3.5-1.5.x
XFree86-devel-3.3.5-1.5.x
Thanks for the help.
dane