.Xdefaults preferences in emacs 21.4.1

.Xdefaults preferences in emacs 21.4.1

[Rob McMillin]

I'm re-asking this because it seems like the first time I asked all I 
got was crickets chirping...

As a result of upgrading to Fedora Core 5, I also inherited the 21.4
release of emacs. The problem with this seems to be that the .Xdefaults
file (set in the XENVIRONMENT environment variable) is no longer heeded
as it was in the 21.3 release.  Questions:

1) I've been over the new Info pages and it doesn't seem to
mention .Xdefaults as a source of configuration data anymore that I can
see.  Am I missing something here?

2) If there is no way for this to work, how can I easily convert
my .Xdefaults file (as lines in my .emacs file, say) so it sets up my
emacs session colors to the way it used to be?

Thanks for any help.

Re: .Xdefaults preferences in emacs 21.4.1

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 03.11.2006 um 20:07 schrieb Rob McMillin:

> 1) I've been over the new Info pages and it doesn't seem to
> mention .Xdefaults as a source of configuration data anymore that I  
> can
> see.  Am I missing something here?

Yes. ~/.Xdefaults was never a file any version of GNU Emacs used.

This file is used by xrdb. This X client puts X resources into a kind  
of X environment (X resources DB). Since xrdb (and xmodmap and xset)  
are the first X clients launched by the X server when it interprets  
~/.xinitrc, what they set every other X client inherits. As long as  
the resources are meant for this client ...

--
Greetings

   Pete

UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are.

Re: .Xdefaults preferences in emacs 21.4.1

[reader]

Rob McMillin <rlm@pricegrabber.com> writes:

> I'm re-asking this because it seems like the first time I asked all I
> got was crickets chirping...
>
> As a result of upgrading to Fedora Core 5, I also inherited the 21.4
> release of emacs. The problem with this seems to be that the .Xdefaults
> file (set in the XENVIRONMENT environment variable) is no longer heeded
> as it was in the 21.3 release.  Questions:
>
> 1) I've been over the new Info pages and it doesn't seem to
> mention .Xdefaults as a source of configuration data anymore that I can
> see.  Am I missing something here?
>
> 2) If there is no way for this to work, how can I easily convert
> my .Xdefaults file (as lines in my .emacs file, say) so it sets up my
> emacs session colors to the way it used to be?

It is OS related not emacs.   I no longer use Fedora for quite a while
now (about 1.9 yrs) so this may not work anymore.

Create a symlink at ~/.xresources that points to .Xdefaults
Restart X and see if your old settings appear.