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From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs not finding Xdefaults
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:00:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <16AFE014-7B11-4B4B-B23D-5E95E57A2E9E@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9d2e506-2ecf-40b5-a276-f1ee7991942f@d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com>


Am 28.11.2007 um 15:10 schrieb rustom:

> Strangely when X starts it does not use these settings but if I start
> emacs-snapshot-gtk from the shell it finds them.

There should be some file that starts the X session, a file like  
~/.xinitrc. One of the statements inside should be

	xrdb -merge $userresources

before the first X client is launched, where $userresources could  
also be an explicite file name. This way your X resource settings  
should be present for all X clients, including GNU Emacs.

If you determine the process ID of an X client that was launched at  
startup (xterm, maybe), the could invoke

	pstree -w -p <that PID<

and find out how your X session started.


Besides this, are you sure that ``emacs-snapshot-gtk*font´´ is the  
right name? For me ``Emacs*font´´ is sufficient ...

--
Greetings

   Pete      <\
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-28 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-28 14:10 emacs not finding Xdefaults rustom
2007-11-28 15:00 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.4248.1196262037.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-28 15:42   ` rustom
2007-11-28 20:07 ` James Cloos
     [not found] ` <mailman.4270.1196280526.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-29 14:13   ` rustom
2007-12-07  3:54     ` rustom
2007-12-07  9:25       ` Peter Dyballa
2007-12-07 17:11       ` reader

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