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Tim McNamara wrote:

> gebser@speakeasy.net writes:
>>You can set this in your ~/.Xdefaults file.  The X manpage will give 
>>details.
>>
> 
> This won't affect the OS X/Aqua version of Emacs, as Aqua does not
> read any of the X11 config files.


1. Can't you force the OS X/Aqua X11 server to load its resource database
    with this command: xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults

2. Emacs explicitly loads that file itself; see x_load_resources ->
    get_user_db/get_environ_db in src/xrdb.c, which is called from x_term_init
    in src/xterm.c.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers