Problem with customizing the way emacs looks

Problem with customizing the way emacs looks

[dxs]

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. 

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Re: Problem with customizing the way emacs looks

[Chris McMahan]

Could it be that a site startup file or your own .emacs is overriding
the .Xresources setting?

- Chris

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. 


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Re: Problem with customizing the way emacs looks

[Maarten Bergvelt]

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. 
>
>


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Re: Problem with customizing the way emacs looks

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.09.2007 um 17:53 schrieb dxs:

> Why this strange behaviour and how to fix it?

Can it be that some Ubuntu theme has been activated? *Messages*  
buffer might shed some light. Do initial-frame-alist and default- 
frame-alist have values? Can they cause what you see?

'xrdb -q' lists the X resources. Do they look like what your  
~/.Xresources and ~/.Xdefaults set? Usually only one of them is used ...

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Re: Problem with customizing the way emacs looks

[xijinshen]

On Sep 14, 9:53 am, dxs <shka...@gmail.com> 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.
>
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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