From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: JS Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Changes i .Xdefaults? Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:47:55 +0100 Organization: UNI-C Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099227148 27917 80.91.229.6 (31 Oct 2004 12:52:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:52:28 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 31 13:52:23 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1COFC3-00050Y-00 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:52:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1COFK0-0006Ng-98 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 08:00:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 130.225.245.182 Original-X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 1099226666 8036 130.225.245.182 (31 Oct 2004 12:44:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:44:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126267 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21649 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21649 I have changed my .Xdefaults so it looks like this: Emacs.pane.menubar.horizontalSpacing: 2 Emacs.pane.menubar.verticalSpacing: 1 Emacs.pane.menubar.Margin: 0 It works fine when I write: xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults in a terminal window, but when I restart my Ubuntu Linux I have to write xrdb -merge $HOME/.Xdefaults again before starting emacs else it just have the standard look. Is there someway to make changes in .Xdefault have permanent effect? Rather annoying that I have to merge each time before running emacs. Johs