From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: System-wide default settings for Emacs on Ubuntu Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:11:40 -0600 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <86tzlvvt8z.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199374924 6566 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2008 15:42:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:42:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 03 16:42:23 2008 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 1JASD8-0007ig-Jf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:42:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JASCm-0006tv-DP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:42:00 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.albasani.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Trace: news.albasani.net 7wAouP6A+uMyQbMGW918tVOn7WXCkwHkbKF+G+FixTxOlYvfjky6SsTim3SaORnS3X4xoOZVGm2jU2UK6iWaRNHKAr6ztwa5z9SS/iRt1+YLKadccm4jBZyGTyW95KJl Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@albasani.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:10:40 +0000 (UTC) X-User-ID: eScl+pmsG2WM8cpLQNvl+Qv0etXbOhnjMI/vRmSBf+4= X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Cancel-Lock: sha1:wlGyZ7VT/MQlXLS0jkw7ZmOKHXc= sha1:69UudYHsGlKgjzxAXHJDaqLIEgU= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NNTP-Posting-Host: rdpja+8v3hLoY6krFiql4jvoCFggpKQoN4D9W8FgaHA= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155036 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:50452 Archived-At: On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 01:20:09 -0800 (PST) Bruza wrote: B> Can you elaborate where is the appropriate X resource files on Ubuntu? /etc/X11/Xresources is used by default; it's a directory that /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources inspects and loads each file from it with xrdb. So /etc/X11/Xresources/Emacs could contain Emacs settings (but the name could be anything, it will get loaded regardless). I found this out with "locate Xresources", "grep -ir resources /etc/X11", and then looking at the scripts mentioned above. Ted