From: Maarten Bergvelt <bergv@math.uiuc.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem with customizing the way emacs looks
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:44:27 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnfellkb.d06.bergv@u19.math.uiuc.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: u7imtdrmi.fsf@one.dot.net
On 2007-09-14, Chris McMahan <first_initiallastname@one.dot.net> wrote:
>
> Could it be that a site startup file or your own .emacs is overriding
> the .Xresources setting?
In other words try starting your emacs as
emacs -q (to suppress your init-file)
emacs --no-sitefile (to suppress the system wide init file)
See the emacs manual Appendix C on command line arguments.
Good luck!
> dxs <shkatov@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm running emacs 21.4.1 on ubuntu.
>>
>> Previously, I was using Fedora. I made quite a few customizations of how
>> emacs looks through .Xresources and .Xdefaults files. Now, I just copied my
>> "old" .Xresources and .Xdefaults into my home directory on ubuntu and a very
>> strange thing happens:
>>
>> when I start emacs up, for a splitting second it looks as prescribed in
>> .Xresources and .Xdefaults, but then it immediately changes to look as it
>> did before I changed .Xresources and .Xdefaults.
>>
>> Why this strange behaviour and how to fix it?
>>
>> Thanks a million,
>> Dmitry.
>
>
--
Maarten Bergvelt
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2007-09-14 18:33 ` Problem with customizing the way emacs looks Chris McMahan
2007-09-14 18:44 ` Maarten Bergvelt [this message]
2007-11-05 20:43 ` xijinshen
2007-09-14 15:53 dxs
2007-09-14 19:02 ` Peter Dyballa
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