From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yuri D'Elia Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12404: 24.2; fails to load X11 resources Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:12:37 +0200 Message-ID: <504F54E5.9040302@thregr.org> References: <504DFF70.1040804@thregr.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347376419 24731 80.91.229.3 (11 Sep 2012 15:13:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:13:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12404@debbugs.gnu.org To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 11 17:13:42 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TBS9i-00005W-Kq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:13:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55640 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TBS9f-0005cu-2i for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:13:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45057) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TBS9b-0005cg-P1 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:13:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TBS9R-0002is-Pm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:13:31 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:45301) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TBS9R-0002ih-My for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:13:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TBSA6-0007j9-1V for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:14:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Yuri D'Elia Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:14:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12404 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12404-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12404.134737640729655 (code B ref 12404); Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:14:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12404) by debbugs.gnu.org; 11 Sep 2012 15:13:27 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54847 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TBS9X-0007iF-Cz for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:13:27 -0400 Original-Received: from e.thregr.org ([80.68.88.20]:48221) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TBS9V-0007i5-D2 for 12404@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:13:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [193.106.183.18] (helo=[10.20.220.70]) by e.thregr.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_CAMELLIA_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1TBS8p-0005kd-E5; Tue, 11 Sep 2012 17:12:43 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.6esrpre) Gecko/20120817 Icedove/10.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:64120 Archived-At: On 09/11/2012 09:21 AM, Glenn Morris wrote: > It works fine for me using Debian's 24.1 package (ie, the GTK+ version), > started with -q (not -Q because that ignores X resources), under XFCE, > with an X resource of the form: > > Emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso8859-1 > > I can't remember whether Gnome settings will take precedence if Gnome > services are running. So suggestion 1 is to recompile --without-gconf > --without-gsettings and see if it makes a difference. Whoa... that was completely unexpected: gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface monospace-font-name 'Monospace 11' funny thing is, I absolutely have no gnome/kde installed, so I had *absolutely* no idea what I had to use to query this crap... Also, I tried the emacs24-lucid package which has --without-gconf, but not --without-gsettings and thus I have the same behavior. How can I force emacs to use X11 resources over gsettings? I have been using *font for years now to configure the default font globally, including with emacs23. This is probably a default setting pulled from the gsettings-desktop-schemas package which is in turn pulled by some weird dependencies, not something I can avoid. Also, I never configured it in the first place. I don't mind the gconf/gsettings dependency on the package, so I would like to avoid asking Debian's maintaines to build another packaged just for this. Ideas?