From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: xijinshen@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with customizing the way emacs looks Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:43:29 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1194295409.490186.78420@v3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194326761 7407 80.91.229.12 (6 Nov 2007 05:26:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 05:26:01 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 06 06:26:05 2007 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 1IpGws-0003Xw-Q2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:26:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IpGwi-0007EF-4D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:25:52 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!v3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.165.82.98 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1194295409 32368 127.0.0.1 (5 Nov 2007 20:43:29 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:43:29 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071022 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.8,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.165.82.98; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153560 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:25:37 -0500 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:49045 Archived-At: On Sep 14, 9:53 am, dxs wrote: > 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. > > -- > View this message in context:http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-customizing-the-way-emacs-looks-tf... > Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. Dmitry, I am running into the same problem after I switch to Ubuntu 7.10. My previous xemacs .Xdefaults and .Xresources configuration don't work any more. Any luck? Xijin