From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs not finding Xdefaults Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:42:34 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <2ff6db20-77a6-473d-b589-b21256179d3d@b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196268045 31061 80.91.229.12 (28 Nov 2007 16:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:40:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 28 17:40:53 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IxPxs-0007yZ-1N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:40:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IxPxc-0001dA-GB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:40:28 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.25.245 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1196264555 23631 127.0.0.1 (28 Nov 2007 15:42:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:42:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b40g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.25.245; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070508 Iceweasel/2.0.0.4 (Debian-2.0.0.4-0etch1), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Content-Disposition: inline Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154214 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:49644 Archived-At: On Nov 28, 8:00 pm, Peter Dyballa wrote: > 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 > and find out how your X session started. > > Besides this, are you sure that ``emacs-snapshot-gtk*font=B4=B4 is the > right name? For me ``Emacs*font=B4=B4 is sufficient ... > > -- > Greetings > > Pete <\ > _\ O _ > |o \ _\\_/-\=3D' > _____________(_)|-(_) (_)___________________________________ Thanks for the detailed answer -- also for telling me about pstree -- very useful. But now its working of itself!! All that I (think I) did was reboot the machine once inbetween. :-) ;-) So I guess the asymptote of all OSes is windows